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Joseph Canning - Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296-1417, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296-1417

Av Joseph Canning

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Through a focused and systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writers - theologians, philosophers and jurists - Joseph Canning explores how ideas about power and legitimate authority were developed over the 'long fourteenth century'. The author provides a new model for understanding late medieval political thought, taking full account of the intensive engagement with political reality characteristic of writers in this period. He argues that they used Aristotelian and Augustinian ideas to develop radically new approaches to power and authority, especially in response to political and religious crises. The book examines the disputes between King Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface VIII and draws upon the writings of Dante Alighieri, Marsilius of Padua, William of Ockham, Bartolus, Baldus and John Wyclif to demonstrate the variety of forms of discourse used in the period. It focuses on the most fundamental problem in the history of political thought - where does legitimate authority lie?
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-10-13
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
  • Vikt: 480 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 232
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107011410
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Joseph Canning is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. He taught for many years at Bangor University where he was Reader in History until 2007, and from 1996 to 2001 he was Director of the British Centre for Historical Research in Germany, at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen. He edited Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times (2004) with Hartmut Lehmann and Jay Winter and his other publications include The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis (1987) and A History of Medieval Political Thought, c.300–c.1450 (1996).

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'Teachers of the history of political ideas will find this book, whose origins are in the author's own teaching practice, useful as a textbook. The structure lends itself to use in the classroom: essential biographical and historiographical information is woven into the analysis and makes each chapter relatively self-sufficient. The writing is always clear and steady, rarely perturbed by accelerations of pace or technical jargon.' Serena Ferente, Speculum

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