Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296-1417

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Canning is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. He taught for many years at Bangor University where he was Reader in History until 2007, and from 1996 to 2001 he was Director of the British Centre for Historical Research in Germany, at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen. He edited Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times (2004) with Hartmut Lehmann and Jay Winter and his other publications include The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis (1987) and A History of Medieval Political Thought, c.300–c.1450 (1996). Klappentext Proposes a radically new interpretation of late medieval political thought by focusing on ideas of power and authority. Zusammenfassung This systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writing reveals contemporary ideas about power and legitimate authority and explores how they developed over the course of the 'long fourteenth century'. It addresses the most fundamental question in political thought - where does legitimate authority lie? Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Ideas of power and authority during the disputes between Philip IV and Boniface VIII; 2. Dante Alighieri: the approach of political philosophy; 3. Marsilius of Padua; 4. Power and powerlessness in the poverty debates; 5. The treatment of power in juristic thought; 6. The power crisis during the Great Schism (1378-1417); Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Canning, Joseph (University of Cambridge) Canning, Canning Joseph
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2011
• EAN: 9781107011410
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01141-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Politics and government, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy