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Authorities in the Middle Ages : influence, legitimacy, and power in medieval society /
Authorities in the Middle Ages investigates the definition, establishment, maintenance, and collapse of medieval authority from antiquity to the mid-fifteenth century. The interdisciplinary approach resonates with the multi-faceted field of medieval culture, its social structures, and various forms...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2013.
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| Colección: | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Authority of the Written Word, the Sacred Object, and the Spoken Word: A Highly Contested Discourse in the Middle Ages; With a Focus on the Poet Wolfram von Eschenbach and the Mystic Hildegard von Bingen; Authority and the Church; "But Our Customs are Older": The Authority of Antiquity in Late Antique Debates (in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries C.E.); A Divine Mandate: Pope Gregory VII's Defense of Papal Authority; A Great Stirring of Hearts or Papal Inspiration? Contesting Popular Authority in the Preaching of the First Crusade.
- Fabricating Philosophical Authority in the Twelfth Century: The Liber Egerimion and the De septem septenisAdapting Authority: The Harrowing of Hell on Two Romanesque Baptismal Fonts; Authority, Text, and Genre in Accounts of Diocesan Struggle: The Bishops of Bath and Glastonbury and the Uses of Cartulary Evidence; "What Jesus means is ... ": The Dominican Order as Theological Authority for Laity and Clergy in Medieval Northern Europe; Predestination and the Two Cities: The Authority of Augustine and the Nature of the Church in Giles of Rome and John Wyclif; Secular Authority.
- From Fist to Scepter: Authority in Norway in the Middle Ages"Je, aucteur de ce livre": Authorial Persona and Authority in French Medieval Histories and Chronicles; Rituals for the Restless Dead: The Authority of the Deceased in Medieval Iceland; Marco Polo and John Mandeville: The Traveler as Authority Figure, the Real and the Imaginary; Motherhood as Authority in the Life of Queen Helen by Archbishop Daniel II; Symbols and Soldiers: English Royal Authority in Gascony, 1355-1356; Empowered Spouses: Matrimonial Legal Authority in Sweden 1350-1442; Contributors; Index.