Book Description
The key ideas on authority of a powerful and historically important thinker.
Author : William of Ockham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521358040
The key ideas on authority of a powerful and historically important thinker.
Author : William of Ockham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521358040
More than any other single thinker, William of Ockham (c.1285-1347) is responsible for the widely held modern assumption that religious and secular-political institutions should operate independently of one another. His point of departure was a tragic collision between two specifically Christian ideals: that of St. Francis and that of a society guided by the single supreme authority of the Pope. This volume begins with his personal account of his engagement in that conflict and continues with essential passages from the major works in which he attempted to resolve it.
Author : William (of Ockham)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Church and state
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Author : Paul Vincent Spade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 1999-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521587907
Offers a full discussion of all significant aspects of this medieval philosopher's thought.
Author : Mads L. Jensen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9004414134
In A Humanist in Reformation Politics Mads Langballe Jensen offers the first contextual account of the political philosophy and natural law theory of the German reformer Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560).
Author : L. T. Hobhouse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 1994-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521437264
L. T. Hobhouse's Liberalism (1911), which has acquired the status of a modern classic, is the most enduring statement of the political principles which animated British liberal social reformers in the early years of the twentieth century. While written in a popular style, it is actually a theoretical work of some subtlety, combining an historical analysis of the evolution of liberal doctrine with a philosophical discussion of the character of liberal belief, and proposing a reformulation of liberalism which emphasises community, individual welfare rights, and an activist state. This 1994 edition of the work includes a number of his other writings from the same period, and will be of interest to a broad range of students and scholars in politics and the history of political thought.
Author : Karen Louise Jolly
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1469611147
In tenth- and eleventh-century England, Anglo-Saxon Christians retained an old folk belief in elves as extremely dangerous creatures capable of harming unwary humans. To ward off the afflictions caused by these invisible beings, Christian priests modified traditional elf charms by adding liturgical chants to herbal remedies. In Popular Religion in Late Saxon England, Karen Jolly traces this cultural intermingling of Christian liturgy and indigenous Germanic customs and argues that elf charms and similar practices represent the successful Christianization of native folklore. Jolly describes a dual process of conversion in which Anglo-Saxon culture became Christianized but at the same time left its own distinct imprint on Christianity. Illuminating the creative aspects of this dynamic relationship, she identifies liturgical folk medicine as a middle ground between popular and elite, pagan and Christian, magic and miracle. Her analysis, drawing on the model of popular religion to redefine folklore and magic, reveals the richness and diversity of late Saxon Christianity.
Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780521377966
First published in 1869, this celebrated work of social criticism is the reference-point for all discussion of the relations between politics and culture.
Author : F. W. Maitland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521526302
The essays collected in State, Trust and Corporation contain the reflections of England's greatest legal historian on the legal, historical and philosophical origins of the idea of the state. All written in the first years of the twentieth century, Maitland's essays are classics both of historical writing and of political theory. They contain a series of profound insights into the way the character of the state has been shaped by the non-political associations that exist alongside it, and their themes are of continuing relevance today. This is the first new edition of these essays for sixty years, and the first of any kind to contain full translations, glossary and expository introduction. It has been designed to make Maitland's writings fully accessible to the non-specialist, and to make available to anyone interested in the idea of the state some of the most important modern writings in English on that subject.
Author : Rodney D. Huddleston
Publisher :
Page : 1860 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2002-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521527613
This grammar for the 21st century combines clear grammatical principles with non-technical explanations of all terms and concepts used.