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Second edition |
| Description |
xi, 339 pages ; 24 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Ideas and institutions in western civilization ; [v. 2] |
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Ideas and institutions in Western Civilization ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The early middle ages -- A.D. Nock : why Christianity triumphed in the Roman world -- Constantine, the Christian emperor -- Eusebius: the life of Constantine -- Eusebius: Constantine as vice-regent of God -- Constantine's pronouncements on the Church -- The Nicene creed -- Decline and fall -- Salvian: the consequences of sin -- St. Jerome: the barbarian traitor -- Edward Gibbon: general causes and effect of Christianity -- Ferdinand Lott: the fundamentalist cause -- J.B. Bury: a series of contingencies -- Michael Rostovtzeff: the revolt of the masses -- Arnold J Toynbee: the pattern of social disintegration -- Andre Piganiol: barbarian assassination -- Ausonius: attitudes and interest of a fourth-century rhetorician and courtier -- Athanasius : St. Antony, the ideal monk -- The problem of freedom of religion in a Christian state -- The edict of Milan -- The debate between Symmachus and St. Ambrose on freedom of religion -- St. Jerome: Christianity and classical culture -- St. Ambrose: Christian duty -- The Augustinian world-view -- Orosius: a providential view of history -- Tacitus: Germanic institutions -- Beowulf: the death of a great lord -- Ammianus Marcellinus: the Huns -- Jordanes: the Visigothic conquests -- Civilitas: the policy of Theodoric the Ostrogoth -- Gregory of Tours: Frankish government and society -- The Justinian code -- Carl von Savigny: the achievements of the Justinian code -- The corpus of the civil law -- Germanic law: the Anglo-Saxon dooms -- Pope Leo I the great : the Petrine doctrine -- Pope Gelasiuis I: the doctrine of the church-state relations -- St. Benedict: the rule -- Cassiodorus: transmission of the ecclesiastical leadership -- Pope Gregory I, the great: ecclesiastical leadership -- The Koran: the principles of Islam -- Bede: medieval religiosity -- The life of St. Sturmi: St. Boniface and the conversion of Germany -- The donation of Constantine -- Charlemagne and the Christian empire -- Einhard: life of Charlemagne -- Letters of Alcuin -- Royal capitularies -- The sage of Gunnlaug and Hrafn: Viking society -- Liudprand of Cremona: an embassy to Constantinople -- Roswitha: cosmology and the liberal arts in the tenth century -- The high Middle Ages -- Feudal institutions and ideals, an act of homage in 1110 -- Fulbert of Chartres on the duties of lord and vassal -- Raoul de Cambrai: the origins of a feudal war -- The truce of God -- Manorial life -- A manor in 1307 -- H.S. Bennett: economic problems of the manorial peasant -- The Gregorian reform and the debate on the nature of a Christian society -- Gregory VII on Church and kingship -- Peter Damiani: against Donatism -- Henry IV's defense of theocratic monarchy -- Hugh of Fleury: the investiture question -- Anonymous of York: divine right of kings -- Paschal II: eccelsiastical poverty -- The first crusade -- St. Anselm: proof of the existence of God -- Rudolph Sohm: Roman law in medieval Europe -- John of Salisbury : the beginnings of the universities -- Peter Abelard: autobiography -- The Bernadine vision -- Judah Halevi: the faith and hope of medieval Israel -- Chivalry, the new sensibility, and romantic love -- Song of Roland: the chivalric ideal -- Cretien de Troyes: romantic love -- Wolfram von Eschenbach: the quest for the grail -- Andreas Capellanus: an essay on woman -- Medieval cities -- William Fitz-Stephen: London in 1173 -- Bonvesin della Riva: Milan in 1288 -- The rise of monarchy -- The Anglo-Saxon chronicle: William the conqueror -- Otto of Freising-Rahewin: Frederick Barbarossa -- Henry II and Thomas Becket -- Varieties of religious experience -- A thirteenth century virgin tale by Jacques de Vitry -- Peter Waldo, as described by an early fourteenth century inquisitor -- The chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: a twelfth century abbot -- Archbishop Eudes Rigaud: records of diocesan visitations in Normandy -- Walther von der Vogelweide: the papacy as wolf -- Innocent III: re-assertion of papal leadership -- St. Francis of Assisi: the way of the Spirit -- St. Thomas Aquinas: the way of the intellect -- The medieval university -- Sir Walter of Henley: a thirteenth century treatise on husbandry -- The advance of royal leadership -- Nicholas of Bari: eulogy of Frederick II -- Joinville: St. Louis -- The beginnings of English constitutionalism -- Impanelling of a jury by a writ of novel disseisin -- Roger of Wendover: King John and the barons -- Magna Carta, 1215 -- Summons of representatives of shires and towns to Parliament, 1295 -- Jean de Meun: corruption and degeneracy -- The dissolution of the medieval world order -- Dante: the principles of political life -- The Occamist revolt |
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Civilization, Western -- History.
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Civilization, Western. (OCoLC)fst00863138
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Cantor, Norman F., editor.
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