Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought
Population in Medieval Thought
1st Edition
Published on 14. December 2000
507 pages
978-0-19-154249-7 (ISBN)
Description
Peter Biller's innovative study challenges the view that medieval thought was fundamentally abstract. He describes what medieval people 'thought' about population, studying the texts which constrained their thought, and examining the medieval realities which shaped it, such as birth, birth-control, sex-ratio, marriage ages, length of life, and the population of the Holy Land.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Notes on Plates
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction to medieval demographic thought
- PART 1. THE CHURCH AND GENERATION
- 2. Marriage and the Church's marriage-texts
- Appendix: Guide to Peter the Lombard's Four Books of Sentences
- 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
- Appendix: William of Pagula, Oculus sacerdotis
- PART 2. THE MAP OF THE WORLD
- 9. Inhabitation of the world
- PART 3. ARISTOTLE AND MULTITUDE
- 10. Animals and life-span
- 11. ThePolitics (i): reception
- 12. ThePolitics (ii): age at marriage
- 13. The Politics (iii): multitude
- PART 4. THE LIGHT OF COMMON DAY
- 14. The bulging circuit of Florence
- Epigraph: The climate of thought
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
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- General Index
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