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The measure of multitude : population in medieval thought /
"By 1300 medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, to get its measure, was developing, and this book describes how medieval people thought about population throug...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction to medieval demographic thought
- PART 1. THE CHURCH AND GENERATION
- 2. Marriage and the Church's marriage-texts
- Appendix: Guide to Peter the Lombard's Four Books of Sentences
- 3. William of Auvergne
- 4. Equal or unequal numbers of men and women
- 5. The precept of marriage and sufficient multiplication
- 6. Avoidance of offspring (i): the general picture
- 7. Avoidance of offspring (ii): Canon law and Sentences commentaries
- 8. Avoidance of offspring (iii): the pastoral picture
- Appendix: William of Pagula, Oculus sacerdotis
- PART 2. THE MAP OF THE WORLD
- 9. Inhabitation of the world
- PART 3. ARISTOTLE AND MULTITUDE
- 10. Animals and life-span
- 11. The Politics (i): reception
- 12. The Politics (ii): age at marriage
- 13. The Politics (iii): multitude
- PART 4. THE LIGHT OF COMMON DAY
- 14. The bulging circuit of Florence
- Epigraph: The climate of thought.