Medieval

ISBN: 9780791472712
Published by : State University of New York Press
The thirteenth century saw a heightening of interest in apocalyptic ideas, both in Christian and Jewish thought. This study of the prophetic and messianic works of the kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240-1291) shows how greatly he was influenced b... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780791472729
Published by : State University of New York Press
The thirteenth century saw a heightening of interest in apocalyptic ideas, both in Christian and Jewish thought. This study of the prophetic and messianic works of the kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240-1291) shows how greatly he was influenced b... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521845816
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Although William of Ockham will always be best known for his philosophical work, he spent the last 13 years of his life producing fiery anti-papal polemics, convinced by papal actions and theory in the dispute over the poverty of the Franciscan... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004163164
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This collection of articles for the first time surveys the medieval tradition of commentaries on the Nichomachean Ethics from its rediscovery to the fifteenth century. The twelve articles concentrate on the moral and intellectual virtues around... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780754660965
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd

After the Roman empire fell, medieval Europe continued to be fascinated by Rome itself, the 'chief of cities'. Once the hub of empire, in the early medieval period Rome became an important centre for western Christianity, first of all as t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503527352
Published by : Brepols
18 essays based around the theme of the 2003 Leeds IMC. The papers are grouped under three headings. Image-Making looks at how power and authority were legitimised and represented, with essays on Charles I of Anjou, a comparative study of Cnut ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503516967
Published by : Brepols
Medieval political thought was pretty much unanimous in its championing of rule by princes, as equally united in the conviction that such princes must be virtous, that their rule indeed depended on personal virtue. There was less agreement over... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004163256
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Ramon Llull (ca. 12321316), mystic, missionary, philosopher, lay theologian, and one of the founding fathers of Catalan literature, was chiefly known in his own time and in subsequent generations as the inventor of a combinatorial, semi-mechani... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780888442925
Published by : Pontifical Institute for Med Studs
Peter Lombard's major work, the four books of the sentences,
was written in the mid twelfth century, and as early as the 1160s
the text was glossed and commented on in the schools. There is
hardly a theologian of note throughout ... .... Learn More