Poverty And Prosperity In The Middle Ages And The Renaissance

Author : Cynthia Kosso,Anne Scott
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Charity
ISBN : UIUC:30112117921723

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Poverty and Prosperity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Cynthia Kosso,Anne Scott Pdf

The dichotomous topics, 'poverty and prosperity', 'rich and poor', continue to interest scholars, politicians, and philosophers while also appealing to a wide general audience, and are particularly of interest today. In this volume, the authors raise and try to answer questions about the ways in which individuals, families, ethnic and religious groups and nations 500, 1000, or even 1500, years ago approached the idea of economic status and personal worth. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume provides an analysis of poverty and prosperity from a multitude of perspectives and within a host of secular and religious literature: historical treatises, scholastic works, art, travellers' and political accounts. Through its breadth, depth, and interdisciplinary focus, the present volume makes a full contribution to the topic for anyone interested in how people in the past have experienced these states.

Author : Michel Mollat,Michel Mollat du Jourdin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300027893

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The Poor in the Middle Ages by Michel Mollat,Michel Mollat du Jourdin Pdf

Author : Constant J Mews,Anna Welch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317077077

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Poverty and Devotion in Mendicant Cultures 1200-1450 by Constant J Mews,Anna Welch Pdf

Ever since the time of Francis of Assisi, a commitment to voluntary poverty has been a controversial aspect of religious life. This volume explores the interaction between poverty and religious devotion in the mendicant orders between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. While poverty has often been perceived more as a Franciscan than as a Dominican emphasis, this volume considers its role within a broader movement of evangelical renewal associated with the mendicant transformation of religious life. At a time of increased economic prosperity, reformers within the Church sought new ways of encouraging identification with the person of Christ. This volume considers the paradoxical tension between voluntary poverty as a way of emulating Christ and involuntary poverty as situation demanding a response from those with the means to help the poor. Drawing on history, literature and visual arts, it explores how the mendicant orders continued to transform religious life into the time of the renaissance. The papers in this volume are organised under three headings, prefaced with an introductory essay by the editors: Poverty and the Rule of Francis, exploring the interpretation of poverty in the Franciscan Order; Devotional Cultures, considering aspects of devotional life fostered by mendicant religious communities, Franciscan, Augustinian and Dominican; Preaching Poverty, on the way poverty was promoted and practiced within the Dominican Order in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Author : Anne M. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317137863

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Experiences of Poverty in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and France by Anne M. Scott Pdf

Exploring a range of poverty experiences-socioeconomic, moral and spiritual-this collection presents new research by a distinguished group of scholars working in the medieval and early modern periods. Collectively they explore both the assumptions and strategies of those in authority dealing with poverty and the ways in which the poor themselves tried to contribute to, exploit, avoid or challenge the systems for dealing with their situation. The studies demonstrate that poverty was by no means a simple phenomenon. It varied according to gender, age and geographical location; and the way it was depicted in speech, writing and visual images could as much affect how the poor experienced their poverty as how others saw and judged them. Using new sources-and adopting new approaches to known sources-the authors share insights into the management and the self-management of the poor, and search out aspects of the experience of poverty worthy of note, from which can be traced lasting influences on the continuing understanding and experience of poverty in pre-modern Europe.

Author : Lester K. Little
Publisher : Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027256091

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Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe by Lester K. Little Pdf

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110609707

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Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlations between the individual and space throughout time, which contributed essentially to identity formation in many different settings. The contributors to this volume engage with a variety of pre-modern texts, images, and other documents related to travel and the individual's self-orientation in foreign lands and make an effort to determine the concept of identity within a spatial framework often determined by the meeting of various cultures. Moreover, objects, images and words can also travel and connect people from different worlds through books. The volume thus brings together new scholarship focused on the interrelationship of travel, space, time, and individuality, which also includes, of course, women's movement through the larger world, whether in concrete terms or through proxy travel via readings. Travel here is also examined with respect to craftsmen's activities at various sites, artists' employment for many different projects all over Europe and elsewhere, and in terms of metaphysical experiences (catabasis).

Author : Sharon A. Farmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 250356206X

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Approaches to Poverty in Medieval Europe by Sharon A. Farmer Pdf

Author : Céline Dauverd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489850

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Church and State in Spanish Italy by Céline Dauverd Pdf

Examines the relation between imperialism and religion through the practice of good government in Spanish Naples. Ideal for courses on the Renaissance, imperialism, the Spanish world, European history, diplomatic-international relations and the general reader interested in cultural history, Renaissance Italy, social minorities, and religious rituals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004267848

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Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times by Anonim Pdf

This volume brings together articles on the cultural, religious, social and commercial interactions among Jews, Christians and Muslims in the medieval and early modern periods. Written by leading scholars in Jewish studies, Islamic studies, medieval history and social and economic history, the contributions to this volume reflect the profound influence on these fields of the volume’s honoree, Professor Mark R. Cohen.

Author : James Mixson,Bert Roest
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004297524

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A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond by James Mixson,Bert Roest Pdf

The Observant reform of the religious orders remains one of the most important yet understudied religious movements of the later Middle Ages. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the field, and suggests new avenues for future scholarship.

Author : Jonathan Robinson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004243460

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William of Ockham's Early Theory of Property Rights in Context by Jonathan Robinson Pdf

This book analyzes William of Ockham's early theory of property rights alongside those of his fellow dissident Franciscans, paying careful attention to each friar's use of Roman and civil law, which provided the conceptual building blocks of the poverty controversy.

Author : Jonathan William Robinson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004245730

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William of Ockham's Early Theory of Property Rights in Context by Jonathan William Robinson Pdf

William of Ockham's (ca. 1288-1347) Opus nonaginta dierum has long been of interest to historians for his theory of rights. Yet the results of this interest has been uneven because most studies do not take sufficient account of the defences of Franciscan poverty already articulated by his fellow Franciscans, Bonagratia of Bergamo, Michael of Cesena, and Francis of Marchia. This book therefore presents and analyzes Ockham's account of property rights alongside those of his confreres. This contextualization of Ockham’s theory corrects many misconceptions about his theory of property, natural law, and natural rights, and therefore also provides a new foundation for studies of his political oeuvre, intellectual development, and significance as a political theorist.

Author : John Gillingham,Ralph A. Griffiths
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192854025

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Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction by John Gillingham,Ralph A. Griffiths Pdf

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle Ages. Out of the turbulence came stronger senses of identity in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Yet this was an age, too, of growing definition of Englishness and of a distinctive English cultural tradition. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Maureen C. Miller,Edward Wheatley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317144526

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Emotions, Communities, and Difference in Medieval Europe by Maureen C. Miller,Edward Wheatley Pdf

This book of eleven essays by an international group of scholars in medieval studies honors the work of Barbara H. Rosenwein, Professor emerita of History at Loyola University Chicago. Part I, “Emotions and Communities,” comprises six essays that make use of Rosenwein’s well-known and widely influential work on the history of emotions and what Rosenwein has called “emotional communities.” These essays employ a wide variety of source material such as chronicles, monastic records, painting, music theory, and religious practice to elucidate emotional commonalities among the medieval people who experienced them. The five essays in Part II, “Communities and Difference,” explore different kinds of communities and have difference as their primary theme: difference between the poor and the unfree, between power as wielded by rulers or the clergy, between the western Mediterranean region and the rest of Europe, and between a supposedly great king and lesser ones.

Author : Anne M. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317137887

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Experiences of Charity, 1250-1650 by Anne M. Scott Pdf

For a number of years scholars who are concerned with issues of poverty and the poor have turned away from the study of charity and poor relief, in order to search for a view of the life of the poor from the point of view of the poor themselves. Great studies have been conducted using a variety of records, resulting in seminal works that have enriched our understanding of pauper experiences and the influence and impact of poverty on societies. If we return our gaze to ’charity’ with the benefit of those studies' questions, approaches, sources and findings, what might we see differently about how charity was experienced as a concept and in practice, at both community and personal levels? In this collection, contributors explore the experience of charity towards the poor, considering it in spiritual, intellectual, emotional, personal, social, cultural and material terms. The approach is a comparative one: across different time periods, nations, and faiths. Contributors pay particular attention to the way faith inflected charity in the different national environments of England and France, as Catholicism and Calvinism became outlawed and/or minority faith positions in these respective nations. They ask how different faith and beliefs defined or shaped the act of charity, and explore whether these changed over time even within one faith. The sources used to answer such questions go beyond the textual as contributors analyse a range of additional sources that include the visual, aural, and material.