Between creativity and norm-making : tensions in the early modern era / / edited by Sigrid Muller, Cornelia Schweiger.

• Superior document: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 165
• TeilnehmendeR: Müller, Sigrid.; Schweiger, Cornelia.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions 165.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The time of the transition from the Middle Ages to the onset of early modernity (c. 1400-1550) is a very complex one. It brought what on first sight appear to be contradictory developments. Human creativity and freedom became much more important; yet, at the same time, the foundations were laid for systems that allowed control to be exercised over virtually every aspect of human social life. How can we put these two phenomena together? Which tendency is the stronger one? The contributions in this volume focus on the tension between creativity and norm-making from the perspective of different academic disciplines, so as to shed light on this fascinating period in our history.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Between Creativity and Norm-Making / Sigrid Müller and Cornelia Schweiger -- From Virtue Ethics to Normative Ethics? Tracing Paradigm Shifts in Fifteenth-Century Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics / Sigrid Müller -- Sine Auctoritate Nulla Disciplina Est Perfecta: Medieval Music Theory in Search of Normative Foundations / Christian Thomas Leitmeir -- “Ÿeglichs Nach Sin Vermugen”: Johannes Nider’s Idea of Conscience / Thomas Brogl -- Amt, Lehramt, Charisma. Die Bedeutung von Prudentia, Discretio und Norm zur Zeit der Ersten Melker Reform / Meta Niederkorn-Bruck -- „. . . Den Seelen helfen“: Neues und Traditionelles in der Spiritualitat des Ignatius von Loyola und der ersten Jesuiten / Marianne Schlosser -- Business Morality at the Dawn of Modernity: The Cases of Angelo Corbinelli and Cosimo De’ Medici / Rudolf Schüssler -- Anthropology Before and After the Discovery of America: Continuity and Change in the Question of the Sameness of Souls / Henrik Wels -- The Change of Geographical Worldviews and Francisco De Vitoria’s Foundation of a Modern Cosmopolitanism / Hans Schelkshorn -- The Better Human Being: The Dispute on Morality in Humanism and the Reformation / Heribert Smolinsky -- Justification Theology and Human Action: On the Foundation of Ethics in Early Lutheranism / Volker Leppin -- Confession as an Instrument of Church Discipline: A Study of Catholic and Lutheran Confessional Manuals from the 16th and 17th Centuries / Renate Dürr -- “Policing” and Morality: On the State Regulation of Faith and Morality in the Policy Decrees of the Early Modern Period / Thomas Simon -- Beholding Saint Christopher: A Contrast to the Belief in Death / Hermann Hold -- Bibliography -- Index Personarum -- Index Rerum.