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William of Malmesbury and the Ethics of History.
A new approach to a vital historical source of the twelfth century, examining its author's ethical purpose in its creation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. History and Ethics: The Framework of an Enquiry; William of Malmesbury: history versus monastic obligations?; History, learning and ethics; Research on medieval historiography, past and present; Theory and method: the framework of an enquiry; Understanding, meaning and intelligibility; Practices: socially embodied activities as loci of meaning; Traditions and forms of life: the framework of social practices; 2. Ethics: From Classical Philosophy to Monastic Practice; The focus and scope of ethics: the soul and its telos.
- The method and form of ethics: the virtuesThe locus and framework of ethics: moral communities; 3. Ethical Thought in the Works of William of Malmesbury; The 'Commentary on Lamentations'; Ethics in the 'Miracles of the Virgin'; 4. The Reading of Ethics and the Ethics of Reading: History as a Vehicle for Moral Education; Moral education in ancient ethics; William of Malmesbury on the utility of history; History after Augustine; Moral didactics in William of Malmesbury; 5. The Gesta Regum Anglorum, Books I and II; The introductory letters.
- Books I and II
- the emergence, consolidation and development of the 'regnum Anglorum'The role of kings in the consolidation of the 'gens Anglorum'; 'Moribus antiquis res stat Anglica virisque'; 6. The Norman Kings; The background of the Conquest; William the Conqueror; William II Rufus; Henry I; Kings and peoples as main structural elements in the 'Gesta Regum Anglorum'; 7. History, Ethics
- and Truth?; Bibliography; Index; Backcover.