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

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 contrib...

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Place / Publishing House:Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 63
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.)
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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