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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

  • 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

  • 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