Inventing modernity in medieval European thought, ca. 1100-ca. 1550 /

"One of the most challenging problems in the history of Western ideas stems from the emergence of modernity out of the preceding period of the Latin Middle Ages. This volume develops and extends the insights of the noted scholar Thomas M. Izbicki into the so-called medieval/modern divide. The c...

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Other Authors: Koch, Bettina, 1970- (Editor), Nederman, Cary J. (Editor), Izbicki, Thomas M. (honouree.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michgian University, [2018]
Series:Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; 63.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Inventing modernity / Bettina Koch and Cary J. Nederman
  • Pierre d'Ailly : the Trinitarian dynamics of personal reform and renewal / Louis B. Pascoe, S.J., with Christopher M. Bellitto
  • History, heresy, and hell : Lateran IV and Dante in the battle for Jan Hus / Thomas A. Fudge
  • History and legitimacy in the Dominican responses to John of Pouilly / Thomas Turley
  • Putting on the toga : classical Roman roots of two medieval Italian "Aristotelian" political theorists (Ptolemy of Lucca and Marsilius of Padua) / Cary J. Nederman
  • Nicholas Cusanus and Lorenzo Valla as virtual colleagues : humanism as defining / Nancy Struever
  • Defensor Pacis transformed : Marsilian ideas in sixteenth century politics / Bettina Koch
  • Cusanus' philosophical testament : De venatione sapientiae = The hunt of wisdom (1462) / Donald F. Duclow
  • Peter Abelard, Anselm of Havelberg and Nicholas of Cusa : sources of an ecumenical tradition / Constant Mews
  • Nicholas of Cusa, the Papacy, and world order : vision and reality / James Muldoon
  • The Great Western Schism, legitimacy, and tyrannicide : the murder of Louis of Orléans (1407) / Joëlle Rollo-Koster
  • Dispensing against the apostle : John Wyclif and the Canonists / Ian Christopher Levy
  • Henri Louis Charles Maret (1805/84) : last of the Conciliarists? / Francis Oakley
  • Appendices
  • Thomas M. Izbicki : a personal and intellectual appreciation / Gerald Christianson
  • Afterword / Thomas M. Izbicki.