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...

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.