Author: Walter Ullmann
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421433982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Originally published in 1966. The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages, based on three guest lectures given at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, explores the place of the individual in medieval European society. Looking at legal sources and political ideology of the era, Ullmann concludes that, for most of the Middle Ages, the individual was defined as a subject rather than a citizen, but the modern concept of citizenship gradually supplanted the subject model from the late Middle Ages onward. Ullmann lays out the theological basis of the political theory that cast the medieval individual as an inferior, abstract subject. The individual citizen who emerged during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, by contrast, was an autonomous participant in affairs of state. Several intellectual trends made this humanistic conception of the individual possible, among them the rehabilitation of vernacular writing during the thirteenth century and the growing interest in nature, natural philosophy, and natural law. However, Ullmann points to feudalism as the single most important medieval institution that laid the groundwork for the emergence of the modern citizen.
The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages
Author: Walter Ullmann
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421433982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Originally published in 1966. The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages, based on three guest lectures given at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, explores the place of the individual in medieval European society. Looking at legal sources and political ideology of the era, Ullmann concludes that, for most of the Middle Ages, the individual was defined as a subject rather than a citizen, but the modern concept of citizenship gradually supplanted the subject model from the late Middle Ages onward. Ullmann lays out the theological basis of the political theory that cast the medieval individual as an inferior, abstract subject. The individual citizen who emerged during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, by contrast, was an autonomous participant in affairs of state. Several intellectual trends made this humanistic conception of the individual possible, among them the rehabilitation of vernacular writing during the thirteenth century and the growing interest in nature, natural philosophy, and natural law. However, Ullmann points to feudalism as the single most important medieval institution that laid the groundwork for the emergence of the modern citizen.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421433982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Originally published in 1966. The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages, based on three guest lectures given at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, explores the place of the individual in medieval European society. Looking at legal sources and political ideology of the era, Ullmann concludes that, for most of the Middle Ages, the individual was defined as a subject rather than a citizen, but the modern concept of citizenship gradually supplanted the subject model from the late Middle Ages onward. Ullmann lays out the theological basis of the political theory that cast the medieval individual as an inferior, abstract subject. The individual citizen who emerged during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, by contrast, was an autonomous participant in affairs of state. Several intellectual trends made this humanistic conception of the individual possible, among them the rehabilitation of vernacular writing during the thirteenth century and the growing interest in nature, natural philosophy, and natural law. However, Ullmann points to feudalism as the single most important medieval institution that laid the groundwork for the emergence of the modern citizen.
The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages
Author: Walter Ullmann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781421433998
Category : Feudalism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781421433998
Category : Feudalism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages
Author: Walter Ullmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feudalism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feudalism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Human Agency in Medieval Society, 1100-1450
Author: IonuĊ£ Epurescu-Pascovici
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages.
Necessary Conjunctions
Author: D. Shaw
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137067918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Necessary Conjunctions is an original study of how regular medieval people created their public social identities. Focusing especially on the world of English townspeople in the later Middle Ages, the book explores the social self, the public face of the individual. It gives special attention to how prevalent norms of honor, fidelity and hierarchy guided and were manipulated by medieval citizens. With variable success, medieval men and women defined themselves and each other by the clothes they work, the goods they cherished, as well as by their alliances and enemies, their sharp tongues and petty violence. Employing a highly interdisciplinary methodology and an original theory makes it possible to see how personal agency and identity developed within the framework of later medieval power structures.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137067918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Necessary Conjunctions is an original study of how regular medieval people created their public social identities. Focusing especially on the world of English townspeople in the later Middle Ages, the book explores the social self, the public face of the individual. It gives special attention to how prevalent norms of honor, fidelity and hierarchy guided and were manipulated by medieval citizens. With variable success, medieval men and women defined themselves and each other by the clothes they work, the goods they cherished, as well as by their alliances and enemies, their sharp tongues and petty violence. Employing a highly interdisciplinary methodology and an original theory makes it possible to see how personal agency and identity developed within the framework of later medieval power structures.
Scale and Scale Change in the Early Middle Ages
Author: Julio Escalona
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503532394
Category : Archaeology, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kings, aristocrats, peasants, and the Church are among the shared features of most early medieval societies. However, these also varied dramatically in time and space. Can petty regional kings, for instance, be compared to those in charge of a whole empire? Scale is a crucial factor in modelling, explaining, and conceptualizing the past. Furthermore, many issues that historians and archaeologists treat independently can be theorized together as processes of scale decrease or increase: the appearance of complex societies, the rise and collapse of empires, changing world-systems, and globalization. While a subject of much discussion in fields such as ecology, geography, and sociology, scale is rarely theorized by archaeologists and historians. This book highlights the potential of the concepts of scale and scale change for comparing and explaining medieval socio-spatial processes. It integrates regional and temporal variations in the fragmentation of the Roman world and the emergence of medieval polities, which are often handled separately by late antique and early medieval specialists. The result of a three-year research project, the nine case studies in this volume offer fresh insights into early medieval rural society while combining their individual subjects to generate a wider explanatory framework.
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503532394
Category : Archaeology, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kings, aristocrats, peasants, and the Church are among the shared features of most early medieval societies. However, these also varied dramatically in time and space. Can petty regional kings, for instance, be compared to those in charge of a whole empire? Scale is a crucial factor in modelling, explaining, and conceptualizing the past. Furthermore, many issues that historians and archaeologists treat independently can be theorized together as processes of scale decrease or increase: the appearance of complex societies, the rise and collapse of empires, changing world-systems, and globalization. While a subject of much discussion in fields such as ecology, geography, and sociology, scale is rarely theorized by archaeologists and historians. This book highlights the potential of the concepts of scale and scale change for comparing and explaining medieval socio-spatial processes. It integrates regional and temporal variations in the fragmentation of the Roman world and the emergence of medieval polities, which are often handled separately by late antique and early medieval specialists. The result of a three-year research project, the nine case studies in this volume offer fresh insights into early medieval rural society while combining their individual subjects to generate a wider explanatory framework.
Reason and Society in the Middle Ages
Author: Alexander Murray
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
This book concentrates on the 250 years beteen the late 11th and early 14th centuries and studies two key facets of the rationalistic tradition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
This book concentrates on the 250 years beteen the late 11th and early 14th centuries and studies two key facets of the rationalistic tradition.
The Individual and Society
Author: Rudolf Eucken
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Individualism
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Individualism
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
English Society in the Early Middle Ages, (1066-1307)
Author: Lady Doris Mary Parsons Stenton
Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"Description of England during the two and a half centuries following the Norman Conquest. Covers the relations between the King, the nobles, the Church, and the people. Also covers the lifestyle of the ordinary people during these centuries.".
Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"Description of England during the two and a half centuries following the Norman Conquest. Covers the relations between the King, the nobles, the Church, and the people. Also covers the lifestyle of the ordinary people during these centuries.".
A Commonwealth of the People
Author: David Rollison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521853737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
Extraordinarily broad-ranging history of the rise of the English language and of popular politics in medieval and early modern England.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521853737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
Extraordinarily broad-ranging history of the rise of the English language and of popular politics in medieval and early modern England.