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John of Salisbury and the medieval Roman renaissance (Manchester Medieval Studies) - Hardcover

Buch 6 von 12: Manchester Medieval Studies

O'Daly, Irene

 
9781526109491: John of Salisbury and the medieval Roman renaissance (Manchester Medieval Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1526109492 ISBN 13: 9781526109491
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2018

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A reappraisal of the role that Roman classical sources, notably the works of Cicero and Seneca, played in the political thought of John of Salisbury, a leading humanist of the twelfth century.

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Irene O'Daly is a Researcher at Huygens ING (De Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen), Amsterdam

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John of Salisbury (c. 1120–80) is a key figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. As a student at the cosmopolitan schools of medieval Paris, an associate of Thomas Becket, and an acute commentator on society and rulership, he provides unique insights into the political culture of the period. This volume reassesses the influence of classical sources on John’s political writings, investigating how he accessed and used the ideas of his ancient predecessors.

By looking at John’s quotations of and allusions to classical works, Irene O’Daly shows that he not only borrowed the vocabulary of his classical forbears, but explicitly aligned himself with their philosophical positions. She illustrates John’s profound debt to Roman Stoicism, derived from the writings of Seneca and Cicero, and shows how he made Stoic theories on duties, virtuous rulership and moderation relevant to the medieval context. She also examines how John’s classical learning was filtered through patristic sources, arguing that this led to a unique synthesis between his political and theological views.

The book places famous elements of John’s political theory – such as his model of the body-politic and his views on tyranny – in the context of the intellectual foment of the classical revival and the dramatic social changes afoot in Europe in the twelfth century. It offers students and researchers of this period a novel investigation of how Stoicism comprises a ‘third way’ for medieval political philosophy, interacting with – and at times dominating – neo-Platonism and proto-Aristotelianism.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526109492
ISBN 13 
9781526109491
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