Inventing Modernity in Medieval European Thought, ca. 1100–ca. 1550 / / ed. by Cary J. Nedermann, Bettina Koch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bellitto, Christopher M.,; Christianson, Gerald,; Duclow, Donald F.,; Fudge, Thomas A.,; Izbicki, Thomas M.,; Koch, Bettina,; Levy, Ian Christopher,; Mews, Constant J.,; Muldoon, James,; Nederman, Cary J.,; Oakley, Francis,; Pascoe, Louis B.,; Rollo-Koster, Joëlle,; Struever, Nancy,; Turley, Thomas,
• HerausgeberIn: Koch, Bettina,; Nedermann, Cary J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 63
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)

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 contributors include a wide array of eminent international scholars from the fields of History, Theology, Philosophy, and Political Science, all of whom explore how medieval ideas framed and shaped the thought of later centuries. This sometimes involved the evolution of intellectual principles associated with the definition and imposition of religious orthodoxy. Also addressed is the Great Schism in the Roman Church that set into question the foundations of ecclesiology. In the same era, philosophical and theoretical innovations reexamined conventional beliefs about metaphysics, epistemology and political life, perhaps best encapsulated by the fifteenth-century philosopher, theologian and political theorist Nicholas of Cusa.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Inventing Modernity -- Part 1 Heresy and Reform -- Pierre d’Ailly -- History, Heresy, and Hell -- History and Legitimacy in the Dominican Responses to John of Pouilly -- Part 2 Transforming Ideas and Traditions -- Putting on the Toga -- Nicholas Cusanus and Lorenzo Valla as Virtual Colleagues -- Defensor Pacis Transformed -- Part 3. Cusa and Philosophy Origins and Applications: Origins and Applications -- Cusanus’s Philosophical Testament -- Peter Abelard, Anselm of Havelberg, and Nicholas of Cusa -- Nicholas of Cusa, the Papacy, and World Order -- Part 4. The Great Schism and the Conciliar Option -- The Great Western Schism, Legitimacy, and Tyrannicide -- Dispensing Against the Apostle -- Henri Louis Charles Maret (1805–1884) -- Part 5. Appendices -- Thomas M. Izbicki -- Afterword -- A Bibliography of the Writings of Thomas M. Izbicki -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names and Places