Scholastic Political Thought (Il Bene Comune: Forme di Governo e Gerarchie Sociali nel Basso Medioevo
The Utility of Peace in Dante
January 2012
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War and Peace in Dante
Rhetoric and the Writing of History, 400-1500
August 2011
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This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.400 and c.1500. Concentrating on the general principles of classical rhetoric central to the language of this writing, alongside the more familiar traditions of ancient history, biblical exegesis and patristic theology, this survey introduces the conceptual sophistication and semantic rigour with which medieval authors could approach their narratives of past and present events, and the diversity of ends to which this history could then be put. By providing a close reading of some of the historians who put these linguistic principles and strategies into practice (from Augustine and Orosius through Otto of Freising and William of Malmesbury to Machiavelli and Guicciardini), it traces and questions some of the key methodological changes that characterise the function and purpose of the western historiographical tradition in this formative period of its development.
History
HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
January 2011
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RHETORIC AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY, 400-1500
The Virtues of Rhetoric: Alcuin's Disputatio de Rhetorica et de Virtutibus
January 2008
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Anglo-Saxon England
Alcuin's Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus has traditionally posed problems of interpretation in terms of both form (its apparently bipartite structure) and content (as a digest of the rules of rhetoric combined with an exposition of the four cardinal virtues). However, a close reading of the sources from which Alcuin was drawing his argument (Cicero, Julius Victor, Fortunatianus, Marius Victorinus, Cassiodorus and, above all, Augustine and Quintilian) suggests why he should have chosen to emphasize the connection between rhetoric and the virtues in this particular way.
Accidental Perfection: Ecclesiology and Political Thought in Monarchia
August 2007
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Dante and the Church: Literary and Historical Essays
The Rhetoric of Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum
July 2007
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Prince au Miroir de la Littérature Politique de l'Antiquité aux Lumières
No Bishop, No King: The Ministerial Ideology of Kingship and Asser’S Res Gestae Aelfredi
April 2001
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Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Ecclesiology and Politics
February 2001
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The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period
This was the period which sowed the seeds of the divisions in the church which have persisted until today. Introduced with an editorial essay from G.R. Evans, this volume will appeal to theologians and historians.
Religion
DE RE PUBLICA 1.39 IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE POLITICAL THOUGHT
January 2001
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The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts: Volume 2, Ethics and Political Philosophy
October 2000
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The long-awaited second volume of The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts offers first-time English translations of major texts in ethics and political thought from one of the most fruitful periods of speculation and analysis in the history of Western thought. The seventeen texts in this anthology offer late medieval treatments of fundamental issues in human conduct that are both conceptually subtle and of direct practical import. This is an important resource for scholars and students of medieval philosophy, history, political science, theology and literature.
Philosophy
The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought
May 1999
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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, this book 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.
History
The Individual Good in Late Thirteenth Century Scholastic Political Thought - Nicomachean Ethics I.2 1094b7-10 and IX.8 1169a11-b2
January 1996
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Miscellanea Mediaevalia
Some Ciceronian Models for Einhard' s Life of Charlemagne
January 1995
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Viator: Medieval and Renaissance studies
This essay seeks to reevaluate the traditional characterization of the Vita Karoli Magni as the first secular biography of the middle ages, a work which self-consciously used Suetonius in order to adapt the written traditions of hagiography and shape a distinctively "imperial" ideal of Carolingian kingship. Instead, it reconstructs the context of Ciceronian rhetoric to which Einhard is known to have been familiar and with which the writing of history and res gestae was closely associated. An awareness of the general rules of epideictic, deliberative, and, above all, forensic rhetoric, it is argued, sheds considerable light not just on Einhard's influential fusion of biography with annals but on the status of the text as an implicit critique of Louis the Pious. Focusing on the generally neglected presence of Charlemagne's will in the text, the essay locates at least the genesis of Einhard's composition in the disturbed politics of 828-829, thereby tying it born to the Epitaphium Arsenii and to Einhard's own Translatio et miracula sancti Marcellini et Petri as evidence of vocal and articulated opposition to Louis's political and ecclesiastical activity.
Individuals and Institution in Scholastic Historiography: Nicholas Treve
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Scholasticism: Individuals and Institutions
Time and Space
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A Short Oxford History of Europe – the Later Middle Ages