Overview

The twenty studies collected in this volume focus on the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern world. The method leads from technical investigations on William Durant the Younger (ca. 1266-1330) and Hermann Conring (1606-1681) through reflection on the nature of historical knowledge to a break with historicism, an affirmation of anachronism, and a broad perspective on the history of Europe. The introduction explains when and why these studies were written, and places them in the context of contemporary historical thinking by drawing on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. This book will appeal to historians with an interest in historical theory, historians of late medieval and early modern Europe, and students looking for the meaning of history.

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Author:   Constantin Fasolt
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   182
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.195kg
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9789004268920

ISBN 10:   9004268928
Pages:   678
Publication Date:   03 April 2014
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Illustrations xi Abbreviations xii Permissions xiv Changes and Revisions xvi Manuscript Sigla xviii Introduction: A Program of Research 1 PART 1 — Holding On: William Durant the Younger (ca. 1266–1330) 107 1 The Manuscripts and Editions of William Durant the Younger’s Tractatus de modo generalis concilii celebrandi—Revised 109 2 A New View of William Durant the Younger’s Tractatus de modo generalis concilii celebrandi 152 3 Research on William Durant the Younger’s Tractatus de modo generalis concilii celebrandi: A Critical Review 193 4 Quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbari debet: The Words and the Meaning 222 5 At the Crossroads of Law and Politics: William Durant the Younger’s ‘Treatise’ on Councils 258 6 The Reception of William Durant the Younger’s Treatises in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times 270 7 William Durant the Younger and Conciliar Theory 294 PART 2 — Moving On: Hermann Conring (1606–81) 313 8 Conring on History 315 9 From Helmstedt via Mainz to Paris: Hermann Conring and Hugues de Lionne 339 10 A Question of Right: Hermann Conring’s New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor 350 11 Hermann Conring and the Republic of Letters 374 12 Author and Authenticity in Conring’s New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor: A Seventeenth-Century Case Study 385 13 Political Unity and Religious Diversity: Hermann Conring’s Confessional Writings and the Preface to Aristotle’s Politics of 1637 416 14 Hermann Conring and the European History of Law 445 PART 3 — Come and Gone: Past Sense 465 15 Visions of Order in the Canonists and Civilians 467 16 Sovereignty and Heresy 493 17 Empire the Modern Way 503 18 The Limits of History in Brief 512 19 Religious Authority and Ecclesiastical Governance 525 20 Hegel’s Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages 546 Works Cited 597 Index 659

Reviews

There are many layers to this insightful, learned, and thought-provoking book. Taken individually, each essay is a masterful piece of research in the field of premodern political thought lato sensu and represents some of the methodological challenges and potentialities of intellectual history as a specific approach to people, ideas, and texts. Taken as a whole, this collection provides several important contributions to the wider historical and historiographical debate. Stefania Tutino, University of California, Los Angeles. In: The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 88, No. 2 (June 2016), pp. 416-417.

“There are many layers to this insightful, learned, and thought-provoking book. Taken individually, each essay is a masterful piece of research in the field of premodern political thought lato sensu and represents some of the methodological challenges and potentialities of intellectual history as a specific approach to people, ideas, and texts. Taken as a whole, this collection provides several important contributions to the wider historical and historiographical debate.” Stefania Tutino, University of California, Los Angeles. In: The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 88, No. 2 (June 2016), pp. 416-417.

Author Information

Constantin Fasolt is the Karl J. Weintraub Professor of History and the College at the University of Chicago. He obtained his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1981. He is the author of Council and Hierarchy: The Political Thought of William Durant the Younger (Cambridge, 1991) and The Limits of History (Chicago, 2004).

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