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Measure of Multitude
Population in Medieval Thought
Av Peter Biller
E-bok, 2000
286 kr
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By 1300, medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, to get its measure, was developing and this book describes how medieval people thought about population through …
The Measure of Multitude
Population in Medieval Thought
Av Peter Biller
Inbunden, 2000
1048 kr
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Peter Biller's innovative study challenges the view that medieval thought was fundamentally abstract. He shows how, by 1300, medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, …
The Measure of Multitude
Population in Medieval Thought
Av Peter Biller
Häftad, 2003
569 kr
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By 1300, medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, to get its measure, was developing and this book describes how medieval people thought about population through …
Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1530
Av Anne Hudson, Peter Biller m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
767 kr
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Did growing literacy in the later medieval period foster popular heresy, or did heresy provide a crucial stimulus to the spread of literacy? Such questions were posed in the polemic of the time - heretics were laici illiterati but were at the same time possessors of dangerous books which their …
Waldenses, 1170-1530
Between a Religious Order and a Church
Av Peter Biller
Inbunden, 2001
2512 kr
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The Waldenses, like the Franciscans, emerged from the apostolic movements within the Latin Church of the decades around 1200, but unlike the Franciscans they were driven underground. Not a full counter-Church, like the Cathar heretics, they formed a clandestine religious order, preaching to and …
Medieval Theology and the Natural Body
Av Peter Biller, Alastair J Minnis
Inbunden, 1997
1246 kr
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New interdisciplinary essays on the treatment of the body in medieval theology.The attitudes towards the human body held by different branches of medieval theology are currently a major focus of scholarly attention. This first volume from York Medieval Press includes studies of the metaphor of man …
Handling Sin
Confession in the Middle Ages
Av A. J. Minnis, Peter Biller m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1246 kr
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Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious life; essays explore literary evidence.Penance, confession and their texts (penitential and confessors' manuals) are important topics for an understanding of the middle ages, in relation to a wide range of issues, from medieval …
Waldenses, 1170-1530
Between a Religious Order and a Church
Av Peter Biller
E-bok, 2024
1022 kr
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The Waldenses, like the Franciscans, emerged from the apostolic movements within the Latin Church of the decades around 1200, but unlike the Franciscans they were driven underground. Not a full counter-Church, like the Cathar heretics, they formed a clandestine religious order, preaching to and …
Waldenses, 1170-1530
Between a Religious Order and a Church
Av Peter Biller
E-bok, 2024
1000 kr
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The Waldenses, like the Franciscans, emerged from the apostolic movements within the Latin Church of the decades around 1200, but unlike the Franciscans they were driven underground. Not a full counter-Church, like the Cathar heretics, they formed a clandestine religious order, preaching to and …
Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages
Av Joseph Ziegler, Peter Biller
E-bok, 2001
310 kr
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Medicine and religion were intertwined in the middle ages; here are studies of specific instances.The sheer extent of crossover - medics as religious men, religious men as medics, medical language at the service of preaching and moral-theological language deployed in medical writings - is the …
Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages
Av Peter Biller, Joseph Ziegler
Inbunden, 2001
1315 kr
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Medicine and religion were intertwined in the middle ages; here are studies of specific instances.The sheer extent of crossover - medics as religious men, religious men as medics, medical language at the service of preaching and moral-theological language deployed in medical writings - is the …
Texts and the Repression of Medieval Heresy
Av Caterina Bruschi, Peter Biller
Inbunden, 2002
1303 kr
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Historiographical survey of inquisition texts, from lists of questions to inquisitor's manual, studies their role in the suppression of heresy.Did you see a heretic? When? Where? Who else was there?'. The inquisitor is questioning, and a suspect is replying; a notary is translating from the …
Handling Sin
Confession in the Middle Ages
Av Peter Biller, Alastair J Minnis
Häftad, 2013
300 kr
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Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious life; essays explore literary evidence.Penance, confession and their texts (penitential and confessors' manuals) are important topics for an understanding of the middle ages, in relation to a wide range of issues, from medieval …
Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700
Av Peter Biller, L J Sackville
Inbunden, 2022
1692 kr
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Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition.The collection, curation, and manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of inquisition. Its coercive power rested on its ability to control information and to produce authoritative …
Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700
Av Peter Biller, L J Sackville
Häftad, 2024
400 kr
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Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition.The collection, curation, and manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of inquisition. Its coercive power rested on its ability to control information and to produce authoritative …
Inquisitors and Heretics in Thirteenth-Century Languedoc
Edition and Translation of Toulouse Inquisition Depositions, 1273-1282
Av Peter Biller, Caterina Bruschi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
3365 kr
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In the study of inquisition and heresy in Languedoc the late thirteenth century is a dark hole. This book redresses this, providing an edition and translation of depositions of heresy suspects interrogated in Toulouse 1273-82, preserved in a copy of 1669. The book’s introduction investigates the …
