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The Measure of Multitude

Population in Medieval Thought

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

AvPeter Biller,University of York) Biller, Peter (Professor of History, Professor of History

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By 1300, medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, to get its measure, was developing and this book describes how medieval people thought about population through both the texts which contained their thought and the medieval realities which shaped it. They found many topics, such as the history of population and variations between polygamy, monogamy and virginity, through theology. Crusade and travel literature supplied the themes of Muslim polygamy, military numbers, the colonization of the Holy Land,and the populations of Mongolia and China. Translations of Aristotle provided not only new themes but also a new vocabulary with which to think about population.In this innovative new study Peter Biller challenges the view that medieval thought was fundamentally abstract. He investigates medieval thought's capacity to deal with concrete contemporary realities, and sets academic discussions of population alongside the medieval facts of 'birth, and copulation, and death'.

Produktinformation

  • Utgivningsdatum2003-10-16
  • Mått157 x 233 x 26 mm
  • Vikt747 g
  • FormatHäftad
  • SpråkEngelska
  • Antal sidor496
  • FörlagOUP OXFORD
  • ISBN9780199265596
  • UtmärkelserJoint winner of the 2002 Longman/History Today Prize

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