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“joseph canning”

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  • Conciliarism, Humanism and Law

    Justifications of Authority and Power, c. 1400–c. 1520

    by Joseph Canning ...
    How was power justified in late medieval Europe? What justifications did people find convincing, and why? Based around the two key intellectual movements of the fifteenth century, conciliarism in the church and humanism, this study explores the justifications for the distribution of power and authority in fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Europe. By examining the arguments that convinced ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • A History of Medieval Political Thought

    300–1450

    by Joseph Canning ...
    First Published in 2005. The book covers four periods, each with a different focus. From 300 to 750 Canning examines Christian ideas of rulership. The often neglected centuries from 750 to 1050, the Carolingian period and its aftermath, are given special attention. From 1050 to 1290 the conflict between temporal and spiritual power and the revived legacy of antiquity comes to the fore. Finally in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times

    by Joseph Canning, Hartmut Lehmann ...
    The fourteenth, seventeenth and twentieth centuries in European history were marked by exceptionally intense experiences of power, violence and mass death. Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times undertakes the ambitious and entirely new task of analyzing, through comparison, the importance of power, violence and mass death in these centuries. Death and the excesses of power ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296–1417

    by Joseph Canning ...
    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 ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul

    Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition

    by Ralph Whitney Mathisen ...
    A study of the collapse of Roman rule in ancient Gaul and the shift to Germanic power.Skin-clad barbarians ransacking Rome remains a popular image of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire, but why, when, and how the Empire actually fell are still matters of debate among students of classical history. In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the western ... Read more

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  • Women in Frankish Society

    Marriage and the Cloister, 5 to 9

    by Suzanne Fonay Wemple ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Women in Frankish Society is a careful and thorough study of women and their roles in the Merovingian and Carolingian periods of the Middle Ages. During the 5th through 9th centuries, Frankish society transformed from a relatively primitive tribal structure to a more complex hierarchical organization. Suzanne Fonay Wemple sets out to understand the forces at work in expanding and limiting women's ... Read more

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  • Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)

    by Walter Ullmann ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Walter Ullmann on Medieval Political Theory
    In many respects this book, first published in 1961, marked a somewhat radical departure from contemporary historical writings. It is neither a constitutional nor a political history, but a historical definition and explanation of the main features which characterised the three kinds of government which can be discerned in the Middle Ages – government by the Pope, the King, the People. The author ... Read more

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  • Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration

    by Jonathan J. Arnold ...
    This book provides a new interpretation of the fall of the Roman Empire and the 'barbarian' kingdom known conventionally as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and material evidence, and in particular the works of Cassiodorus and Ennodius, Jonathan J. Arnold argues that contemporary Italo-Romans viewed the Ostrogothic kingdom as the Western Roman Empire and its 'barbarian' king ... Read more

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  • Religious Movements in the Middle Ages

    by Herbert Grundmann ...
    Translated by Steven Rowan ...
    Medievalists, historians, and women's studies specialists will welcome this translation of Herbert Grundmann's classic study of religious movements in the Middle Ages because it provides a much-needed history of medieval religious life--one that lies between the extremes of doctrinal classification and materialistic analysis--and because it represents the first major effort to underline the ... Read more

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  • Publication and the Papacy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

    by Samu Niskanen ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates that throughout the medieval period, papal involvement in the publication of new works was a phenomenon, which surged in the eleventh century. The efforts by four authors to use their papal connexions in the interests of publicity are examined as case ... Read more

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  • The Bishop Reformed

    Studies of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages

    by Anna Trumbore Jones ...
    Series series Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
    In the period following the collapse of the Carolingian Empire up to the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), the episcopate everywhere in Europe experienced substantial and important change, brought about by a variety of factors: the pressures of ecclesiastical reform; the devolution and recovery of royal authority; the growth of papal involvement in regional matters and in diocesan administration; the ... Read more

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