Medieval Cruelty

Name: Medieval Cruelty
Brand: Cornell University Press
SKU: 9780801438172
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Changing Perceptions, Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

Szerző: Daniel Baraz

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Cornell University Press

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The Middle Ages are often thought of as an era during which cruelty was a major aspect of life, a vi...

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Daniel Baraz

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2003

oldal

240

EAN

9780801438172

ISBN

0801438179

Enbook ID

04706215

Kiadó

Cornell University Press

Súly

508

Méretek

160 x 238 x 22

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The Middle Ages are often thought of as an era during which cruelty was a major aspect of life, a view that stems from the anti-Catholic polemics of the Reformation. Daniel Baraz makes the striking discovery that the concept of cruelty, which had been an important issue in late antiquity, received little attention in the medieval period before the thirteenth century. From that point on, interest in cruelty increased until it reached a peak late in the sixteenth century.Medieval Cruelty's extraordinary scope ranges from the writings of Seneca to those of Montaigne and draws from sources that include the views of Western Christians, Eastern Christians, and Muslims. Baraz examines the development of the concept of cruelty in legal texts, philosophical treatises, and other works that attempt to discuss the nature of cruelty. He then considers histories, martyrdom accounts, and literary works in which cruelty is represented rather than discussed directly.In the wake of the intellectual transformations of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, an increasing focus on the intentions motivating an individual's acts rekindled the discussion of cruelty. Baraz shows how ethical thought and practice about cruelty, which initially focused on external forces, became a tool to differentiate internal groups and justify violence against them. This process is evident in attacks on the Jews, in the peasant rebellions of the later Middle Ages, and in the Wars of Religion.

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