Ideology in the Middle Ages : : Approaches from Southwestern Europe / / ed. by Flocel Sabaté.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Alonso Álvarez, Raquel,; Amalvi, Christian,; Barthélemy, Dominique,; Charageat, Martine,; Coira Pociña, Juan,; Craciun, Doina Elena,; De Murcia Conesa, Antonio,; Fonseca Antunes, Joana Filipa,; Freedman, Paul,; Hernández Rodríguez, Alfonso M.,; Luiz Bertoli, André,; Mancinelli, Chiara,; Melatini, Chiara,; Naegle, Gisela,; Pérez Marinas, Iván,; Rojas Donat, Luis,; Rucquoi, Adeline,; Sabaté, Flocel,; Sacchi, Samuele,; Salviati, Sophie,; Todeschini, Giacomo,
• HerausgeberIn: Sabaté, Flocel,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: CARMEN monographs and studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (468 p.)

Part of a trilogy involving research on identity and memory also, this substantial volume sets out to illuminate medieval thought through an in-depth and highly interdisciplinary study of ideology, interrogating the underlying values that inform the interpretive framework through which we might better understand men and women of the Middle Ages. An introductory chapter situates the Christian Church in the West as a framing ideology of the Middle Ages, analysing Christianity as a coherent narrative providing people with security through its integrated explanation of physical surroundings, social order, and spiritual hope. The book then goes on to consider ideology from four angles: as a means of defining power; as a way of managing power; ideology in the mind as an influence on daily living and how we understand societies; and finally, the ways in which ideology associated with the Middle Ages has exerted influence centuries later, conditioning understandings of past and present. The individual chapters focus on concrete cases, giving preference to exemplars from southern Europe, a region with a large amount of documentation but which to date has occupied a relatively minor position in research into the Middle Ages. It is this emphasis that is acknowledged in the title of this book, Ideology in the Middle Ages: Approaches from Southwestern Europe, which is offered as a means of enriching and complicating study of the Middle Ages. This book has two companion volumes, dealing with the allied concepts of memory and identity as part of a larger project that seeks to map and interrogate the significance of all three concepts in the Middle Ages in the West.

This interdisciplinary volume sets out to illuminate medieval thought, and to consider how the underlying values of the Middle Ages exerted significant influence in medieval society in the West. The book situates the Christian Church in the West as a framing ideology of the Middle Ages, and considers ideology from four angles: as a means of defining power; as a way of managing power; ideology as an influence on daily living and societies; and the ways in which ideology associated with the Middle Ages continues to influence understandings of past and present. A focus on southern European case studies has been chosen as a means of enriching and complicating study of the Middle Ages.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction. Ideology in the Middle Ages -- PART ONE: IDEOLOGY - A DEFINITION OF POWER -- Chapter 1. Ideology and Social Order -- Chapter 2. Auctoritas, potestas: Concepts of Power in Medieval Spain -- Chapter 3. Kingship in Isidore of Seville's Historical Work: A Political Interpretation of the Two Versions -- Chapter 4. The Quest for Ideology in Carolingian Times: Ecclesiological Patterns in the Latin West from the Eighth to the Early Tenth Centuries -- Chapter 5. Spiritual and Temporal Power in Raymond Llull's Arbor scientiae -- PART TWO: IDEOLOGY - THE MANAGEMENT OF POWER -- Chapter 6. Regnum Gothorum and regnum Hispaniae in Medieval Spanish Christian Chronicles: Continuation, End, or Translation in their Accounts of the Arab Conquest -- Chapter 7. The Duel in Medieval Western Mentality -- Chapter 8. Royal Power and the Episcopacy: Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Relics from Oviedo Cathedral -- Chapter 9. Chivalric Ideology in the Late Twelfth-Century Chanson d'Aspremont -- Chapter 10. Adoration of the Magi and Authority of the Medieval King: An Ambiguous Correlation -- Chapter 11. Ideology and Civic Ideal in French and German Cities in the Late Middle Ages -- Chapter 12. Economy and Religion in Late Medieval Italy: Markets in the Christian City -- PART THREE: IDEOLOGY IN THE MIND -- Chapter 13. The Relationship between Mentality and Ideology: Acculturation and Christianization in Galicia, 500-1100 -- Chapter 14. The Foundation of the Franciscan Friary of the Sant Esperit, Valencia: Rule, Economy, and Royal Power in the Fifteenth-Century Crown of Aragon -- Chapter 15. Metamorphosis of the Green Man and the Wild Man in Portuguese Medieval Art -- Chapter 16. Military Models for Nobles in Zurara's Northern African Chronicles -- Chapter 17. Lorenzo the Magnificent: From Pseudo-Dynastic Polity to the Ottoman Model -- Chapter 18. Political Ideology and Legal Identity: The Reform of Juridical Deliberation in Aragon in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- PART FOUR: THE MIDDLE AGES AS IDEOLOGY IN LATER ERAS -- Chapter 19. The Middle Ages: Support for a Counter-Revolutionary and Reactionary Ideology, 1830-1944 -- Chapter 20. The Middle Ages among Spanish Intellectuals of the First Half of the Twentieth Century