The Measure of Multitude

Population in Medieval Thought

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

AvPeter Biller

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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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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Medeltiden inom Historia och arkeologi
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

1. Introduction to Medieval Demographic Thought ; PART 1: THE CHURCH AND GENERATION ; 2. Marriage and the Church's Marriage-Texts ; 3. William of Auvergne ; 4. Equal or Unequal Numbers of Men and Women ; 5. The Precept of Marriage and Sufficient Multiplication ; 6. Avoidance of Offspring (i): The General Picture ; 7. Avoidance of Offspring (ii): Canon Law and Sentences Commentaries ; 8. Avoidance of Offspring (iii): The Pastoral Picture ; PART 2: THE MAP OF THE WORLD ; 9. Inhabitation of the World ; PART 3: ARISTOTLE AND MULTITUDE ; 10. Animals and Life-span ; 11. The Politics (i): Reception ; 12. The Politics (ii): Age at Marriage ; 13. The Politics (iii): Multitude ; THE LIGHT OF COMMON DAY ; 14. The Bulging Circuit of Florence ; Epigraph: The Climate of Thought ; Bibliography ; Index of Manuscripts ; General Index