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  • The Western Perception of Islam between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

    The Work of Nicholas of Cusa

    In the Middle Ages, as Christian sources on the Islamic world show, Muslim culture was perceived as extremely threatening: there were many defenses of Christianity, like the treatise on the "mistakes" of the followers of Allah. This book shows, through an analysis of the works of Nicholas of Cusa and of other authors, that in the course of time this textual attitude was modified, as European ... Leer más

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  • Medieval Aristotelianism and its Limits

    Classical Traditions in Moral and Political Philosophy, 12th–15th Centuries

    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This volume deals with the development of moral and political philosophy in the medieval West. Professor Nederman is concerned to trace the continuing influence of classical ideas, but emphasises that the very diversity and diffuseness of medieval thought shows that there is no single scheme that can account for the way these ideas were received, disseminated and reformulated by medieval ethical ... Leer más

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  • The Bonds of Humanity

    Cicero’s Legacies in European Social and Political Thought, ca. 1100–ca. 1550

    Of the great philosophers of pagan antiquity, Marcus Tullius Cicero is the only one whose ideas were continuously accessible to the Christian West following the collapse of the Roman Empire. Yet, in marked contrast with other ancient philosophers, Cicero has largely been written out of the historical narrative on early European political thought, and the reception of his ideas has barely been ... Leer más

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  • Machiavelli

    A Beginner's Guide

    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Liberal thinker or immoral pragmatist? You decide…Machiavelli has been among the most commented upon, criticized and feared thinkers of the modern world. Infamous for his support of brutality and repression as valid political instruments, he is often portrayed as the pantomime villain of political theorists. In this whirlwind tour of Machiavelli’s writings and eventful life, Nederman highlights ... Leer más

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  • Heresy in Transition

    Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    Series series Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
    The concept of heresy is deeply rooted in Christian European culture. The palpable increase in incidences of heresy in the Middle Ages may be said to directly relate to the Christianity's attempts to define orthodoxy and establish conformity at its centre, resulting in the sometimes forceful elimination of Christian sects. In the transition from medieval to early modern times, however, the ... Leer más

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  • Introduction to Moral Theology

    Series Libro 1 - Catholic Moral Thought
    The comprehensive introduction to Catholic moral theology by the leading theologian and author of The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics .In Introduction to Moral Theology, Father Romanus Cessario, O.P. presents and expounds on the basic and central elements of Catholic moral theology written in the light of Veritatis splendor. Since its publication in 2001, this fir... ... Leer más

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  • Reformations

    The Early Modern World, 1450-1650

    This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in ... Leer más

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  • The Highest Poverty

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    The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben's new ... Leer más

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  • A Short History of European Law

    The Last Two and a Half Millennia

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  • The Reformation

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  • The Book of Memory

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    Series Libro 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
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