Medieval Statecraft And Perspectives Of History

Author : Joseph R. Strayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400872312

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Medieval Statecraft and Perspectives of History by Joseph R. Strayer Pdf

This collection of essays by the eminent historian Joseph Strayer makes available in one volume his important shorter studies on the central theme of the political, constitutional, and institutional history of France and England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Joseph R. Strayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1103662723

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Medieval Statecraft and the Perspectives of History by Joseph R. Strayer Pdf

Author : Joseph Reese Strayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Middle Ages
ISBN : OCLC:978224044

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Medieval Statecraft and the Perspectives of History by Joseph Reese Strayer Pdf

Author : Joseph Reese Strayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Middle Ages
ISBN : 0598186506

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Medieval Statecraft and the Perspectives of History by Joseph Reese Strayer Pdf

Author : M. S. Kempshall
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191542695

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The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought by M. S. Kempshall Pdf

This study offers a major reinterpretation of medieval political thought by examining one of its most fundamental ideas. If it was axiomatic that the goal of human society should be the common good, then this notion presented at least two conceptual alternatives. Did it embody the highest moral ideals of happiness and the life of virtue, or did it represent the more pragmatic benefits of peace and material security? Political thinkers from Thomas Aquinas to William of Ockham answered this question in various contexts. In theoretical terms, they were reacting to the rediscovery of Aristotle's Politics and Ethics, an event often seen as pivotal in the history of political thought. On a practical level, they were faced with pressing concerns over the exercise of both temporal and ecclesiastical authority - resistance to royal taxation and opposition to the jurisdiction of the pope. In establishing the connections between these different contexts, The Common Good questions the identification of Aristotle as the primary catalyst for the emergence of 'the individual' and a 'secular' theory of the state. Through a detailed exposition of scholastic political theology, it argues that the roots of any such developments should be traced, instead, to Augustine and the Bible.

Author : Joseph R. Strayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691657134

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The Reign of Philip the Fair by Joseph R. Strayer Pdf

The reign of Philip the Fair marks both the culmination of the medieval French monarchy and the beginning of the transition from the medieval to the modern period. In this long-awaited study of Philip's reign, Joseph R. Strayer discusses the king's personality, his quarrels with the Church and with neighboring rulers, and his relations with his subjects. He also examines developments in the French administrative system. In studying the decision-making process and the careers of hundreds of royal officials, the author determines how increases in royal power and in the effectiveness and complexity of the administration were achieved. He also considers how these changes affected the possessing classes and how Philip made them acceptable or at least tolerable to the politically conscious segment of the population. As Professor Strayer shows, under Philip, the balance of loyalty swung away from the local authorities and the Church Universal and toward the secular, sovergein state. the central administration grew so strong, and its efficiency so improved, that it became the model for many other European states. Joseph R. Strayer retired from Princeton University as Dayton-Stockton Professor of History in 1973. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State and Medieval Statecraft and the Perspectives of History (both Princeton books). Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813234359

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Tales of a Minstrel of Reims in the Thirteenth Century by Anonim Pdf

An anonymous minstrel in thirteenth-century France composed this gripping account of historical events in his time. Crusaders and Muslim forces battle for control of the Holy Land, while power struggles rage between and among religious authorities and their conflicting secular counterparts, pope and German emperor, the kings of England and the kings of France. Meanwhile, the kings cannot count on their independent-minded barons to support or even tolerate the royal ambitions. Although politics (and the collapse of a royal marriage) frame the narrative, the logistics of war are also in play: competing military machinery and the challenges of transporting troops and matariel. Inevitably, the civilian population suffers. The minstrel was a professional story-teller, and his livelihood likely depended on his ability to captivate an audience. Beyond would-be objective reporting, the minstrel dramatizes events through dialogue, while he delves into the motives and intentions of important figures, and imparts traditional moral guidance. We follow the deeds of many prominent women and witness striking episodes in the lives of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lionhearted, Blanche of Castile, Frederick the Great, Saladin, and others. These tales survive in several manuscripts, suggesting that they enjoyed significant success and popularity in their day. Samuel N. Rosenberg produced this first scholarly translation of the Old French tales into English. References that might have been obvious to the minstrel’s original audience are explained for the modern reader in the indispensable annotations of medieval historian Randall Todd Pippenger. The introduction by eminent medievalist William Chester Jordan places the minstrel’s work in historical context and discusses the surviving manuscript sources.

Author : William Chester Jordan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400869664

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Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade by William Chester Jordan Pdf

Louis IX has long been known both as a saintly crusader and as the founder of effective royal administration in France. But, in spite of a vast amount of research, the details of what happened under his rule and why it happened have been little understood. Synthesizing this research from a thematic perspective, William Chester Jordan integrates the various facets of the king's reign from 1226 to 1270 to show how the monarch's reforms were inextricably connected with his crusades. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Anne E. Lester
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801462955

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Creating Cistercian Nuns by Anne E. Lester Pdf

In Creating Cistercian Nuns, Anne E. Lester addresses a central issue in the history of the medieval church: the role of women in the rise of the religious reform movement of the thirteenth century. Focusing on the county of Champagne in France, Lester reconstructs the history of the women’s religious movement and its institutionalization within the Cistercian order. The common picture of the early Cistercian order is that it was unreceptive to religious women. Male Cistercian leaders often avoided institutional oversight of communities of nuns, preferring instead to cultivate informal relationships of spiritual advice and guidance with religious women. As a result, scholars believed that women who wished to live a life of service and poverty were more likely to join one of the other reforming orders rather than the Cistercians. As Lester shows, however, this picture is deeply flawed. Between 1220 and 1240 the Cistercian order incorporated small independent communities of religious women in unprecedented numbers. Moreover, the order not only accommodated women but also responded to their interpretations of apostolic piety, even as it defined and determined what constituted Cistercian nuns in terms of dress, privileges, and liturgical practice. Lester reconstructs the lived experiences of these women, integrating their ideals and practices into the broader religious and social developments of the thirteenth century—including the crusade movement, penitential piety, the care of lepers, and the reform agenda of the Fourth Lateran Council. The book closes by addressing the reasons for the subsequent decline of Cistercian convents in the fourteenth century. Based on extensive analysis of unpublished archives, Creating Cistercian Nuns will force scholars to revise their understanding of the women’s religious movement as it unfolded during the thirteenth century.

Author : Richard W. Kaeuper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199244584

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Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe by Richard W. Kaeuper Pdf

Medieval Europe was a rapidly developing society with a problem of violent disorder. Professor Kaeuper's original and authoritative study reveals that chivalry was just as much a part of this problem as it was its solution. Chivalry praised heroic violence by knights, and fused such displaysof prowess with honour, piety, high-status, and attractiveness to women. Though the vast body of chivalric literature praised chivalry as necessary to civilization, most texts also worried over knightly violence, criticized the ideals and practices of chivalry, and often proposed reforms. Theknights themselves joined the debate, absorbing some reforms, ignoring others, sometimes proposing their own. The interaction of chivalry with major governing institutions ("church" and "state") emerging at that time was similarly complex: kings and clerics both needed and feared the force of theknighthood. This fascinating book lays bare these conflicts and paradoxes which surrounded the concept of chivalry in medieval Europe.

Author : Jackson W. Armstrong,Peter Crooks,Andrea Ruddick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030772802

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Using Concepts in Medieval History by Jackson W. Armstrong,Peter Crooks,Andrea Ruddick Pdf

This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a means of understanding past societies, but those concepts conjured in an effort to bring order to the infinite complexity of the past have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own and inordinately influencing historical interpretation. The most famous example is ‘feudalism’, whose fate as a concept is reviewed here by E.A.R. Brown nearly fifty years after her seminal article on the topic. The volume’s contributors offer a series of case studies of other concepts – 'colony', 'crisis', 'frontier', 'identity', 'magic', 'networks' and 'politics' – that have been influential, particularly among historians of Britain and Ireland in the later Middle Ages. The book explores the creative friction between historical ideas and analytical categories, and the potential for fresh and meaningful understandings to emerge from their dialogue.

Author : Daniel Waley,Peter Denley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317890188

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Later Medieval Europe by Daniel Waley,Peter Denley Pdf

From the divine right of kings to the political philosophies of writers such as Machiavelli, the medieval city-states to the unification of Spain, Daniel Waley and Peter Denley focus on the growing power of the state to illuminate changing political ideas in Europe between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. Spanning the entire continent and beyond, and using contemporary voices wherever possible, the authors include substantial sections on economics, religion, and art, and how developments in these areas fed into and were influenced by the transformation of political thinking. The new edition takes the narrative beyond the confines of western Europe with chapters on East Central Europe and the teutonic knights, and the Portuguese expansion across the Atlantic. The third edition of this classic introduction to the period includes even greater use of contemporary voices, full reading lists, and new chapters on East Central Europe and Portuguese exploration. Suitable as an introductory text for undergraduate courses in Medieval Studies and Medieval European History.

Author : Noel D. Johnson,Mark Koyama
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108425025

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Persecution & Toleration by Noel D. Johnson,Mark Koyama Pdf

In this book, Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama tackle the question: how does religious liberty develop?

Author : James Henderson Burns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0521423880

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The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought C.350-c.1450 by James Henderson Burns Pdf

This volume examines the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than a thousand years.

Author : Martti Koskenniemi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1127 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521768597

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To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth by Martti Koskenniemi Pdf

A critical history of European sovereignty and property rights as the foundation of the international order in 1300-1870.