Intellectual Culture In Medieval Paris

Author : Ian P. Wei
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107378486
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris written by Ian P. Wei and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirteenth century, the University of Paris emerged as a complex community with a distinctive role in society. This book explores the relationship between contexts of learning and the ways of knowing developed within them, focusing on twelfth-century schools and monasteries, as well as the university. By investigating their views on money, marriage and sex, Ian Wei reveals the complexity of what theologians had to say about the world around them. He analyses the theologians' sense of responsibility to the rest of society and the means by which they tried to communicate and assert their authority. In the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, however, their claims to authority were challenged by learned and intellectually sophisticated women and men who were active outside as well as inside the university and who used the vernacular - an important phenomenon in the development of the intellectual culture of medieval Europe.

Author : Ian P. Wei
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ISBN 13 : 9781139379892
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris written by Ian P. Wei and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ideas of theologians at the medieval University of Paris and their attempts to shape society.

Author : Ian P. Wei
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139378468
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris written by Ian P. Wei and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ideas of theologians at the medieval University of Paris and their attempts to shape society.

Author : Stefka Georgieva Eriksen
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503553078
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Culture in Medieval Scandinavia, C. 1100-1350 written by Stefka Georgieva Eriksen and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the nature of intellectual activity in the Middle Ages from the perspective of medieval Scandinavia by discussing how a multimodal and multilingual Scandinavian culture emerged through the dynamic interchange of foreign and local impulses in the minds of creative intellectuals. By deploying cognitive theory, this volume conceptualizes intellectual culture as the result of the individual's cognition, which incorporates physical perceptions of the world, memory and creation, rationality, emotionality and spirituality, and decision making. In doing so, it elucidates the diversity of social roles that could be assumed by people engaged in the activity of thinking. Attention is paid in particular to the key intellectual activities of negotiating secular and religious authority and identity; to thinking and learning through verbal and visual means; and to ruminating on worldly existence and heavenly salvation. These processes are explored in a series of essays that focus on various visual and textual artefacts, among them Church art and sculptures, manuscript fragments, and texts of both different languages (Latin and Old Norse) and genres (sagas, poetry and grammatical treatises, laws, liturgical explanations and theological texts). The variety of intellectual and ideational processes connected to the textual and material culture of medieval Scandinavia forms the focal point of this study. As a result, this book actively seeks to transcend the traditional cultural dichotomies of written versus oral material, Latin versus vernacular, lay versus secular, or European versus Nordic by foregrounding the cognitive and creative agency of intellectuals in medieval Scandinavia.

Author : Randall B. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108841155
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris written by Randall B. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing attention on the importance of preaching, this book should spur a fundamental reconsideration of 'scholastic' culture and education.

Author : Ian P. Wei
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107009693
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris written by Ian P. Wei and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ideas of theologians at the medieval University of Paris and their attempts to shape society. Investigating their views on money, marriage and sex, Ian Wei reveals the complexity of what theologians had to say about the world around them, and the increasing challenges to their authority.

Author : Jacques Le Goff
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631185192
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectuals in the Middle Ages written by Jacques Le Goff and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1993-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering work Jacques Le Goff examines both the creation of the medieval universities in the great cities of the European High Middle Ages, and the linked origins of the intellectuals - the first Europeans since the Classic Age to owe their livelihoods to their teaching and accumulation of knowledge. The author's argument is that the intellectuals, Abelard most typically, were a new category of person (neither monk nor knight) with a new method (scholastic dialectic) and a new objective (knowledge for its own sake). For the first time in Spain, France, England and Germany the luxury of thinking and learning ceased to be the limited preserve of the higher echelons of the Church and the Court. The effect, the author shows, was to bring about an irreversible shift in European culture. This intellectual history of medieval Europe (translated from the revised French edition of 1984) will be widely welcomed by students and scholars of the Middle Ages throughout the English-speaking world.

Author : Charlotte Cooper-Davis
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789144418
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christine de Pizan written by Charlotte Cooper-Davis and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-11-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first popular biography of a pioneering feminist thinker and writer of medieval Paris. The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the cultural heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned the tools of the book trade, writing more than forty works that included poetry, historical and political treatises, and defenses of women. In this new biography—the first written for a general audience—Charlotte Cooper-Davis discusses the life and work of this pioneering female thinker and writer. She shows how Christine de Pizan’s inspiration came from the world around her, situates her as an entrepreneur within the context of her times and place, and finally examines her influence on the most avant-garde of feminist artists, through whom she is slowly making a return into mainstream popular culture.

Author : Bronislaw Geremek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521026123
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris written by Bronislaw Geremek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the 'marginal' people of late medieval Paris, the large and shifting group of men and women who existed on the margins of conventional organized society. Professor Geremek examines the various groups which made up the marginal world - beggars, prostitutes, procuresses and pimps, petty criminals, casual workers and the unemployed - their haunts in and around Paris, their way of life, and their relation to 'normal' society. Professor Geremek has made with this book a major contribution to the study of late medieval society which illuminates the little-known area of the medieval underworld in a fascinating and very accessible manner. Translated by Jean Birrell from the French edition of 1976, this edition includes a new introduction by Jean-Claude Schmitt, which offers a frank appraisal of the author's life and career to date.

Author : Spencer E. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113991636X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scholarly Community at the Early University of Paris written by Spencer E. Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which theologians at the early University of Paris promoted the development of this new centre of education into a prominent institution within late medieval society. Drawing upon a range of evidence, including many theological texts available only in manuscripts, Spencer E. Young uncovers a vibrant intellectual community engaged in debates on such issues as the viability of Aristotle's natural philosophy for Christian theology, the implications of the popular framework of the seven deadly sins for spiritual and academic life, the social and religious obligations of educated masters, and poor relief. Integrating the intellectual and institutional histories of the Faculty of Theology, Young demonstrates the historical significance of these discussions for both the university and the thirteenth-century church. He also reveals the critical role played by many of the early university's lesser-known members in one of the most transformative periods in the history of higher education.