European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2009

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• Marriage Advice for a Pope

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  • Author: P. Nold
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  • This book reconstructs the scholastic arguments about marital indissolubility and papal power that lay behind John XXII’s 1322 constitution Antique Concertationi. It illustrates the dynamic relationship between canon law and theology, and the tensions between papal authority and academic expertise, that animated a controversial pontificate

• Mediene Remnants

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  • Author: T. Van Luit
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  • The inventory presents a survey of extant Yiddish sources in Dutch archives outside of Amsterdam. Most material was hitherto unknown. The inventory aims to stimulate new research on West-Yiddish and the history of Ashkenazi Jewry in The Netherlands.

• Medieval Capital Markets

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  • Author: J. Zuijderduijn
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  • This study uncovers the institutional framework of markets for 'renten', which allowed large segments of the public and private sectors in late medieval Holland to accumulate capital, and thus functioned as capital markets that enabled economic development.

• Medieval Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics

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  • Editors Charles Barber; David Jenkins
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  • The papers gathered in this volume offer precise investigations of the historical and philosophical grounds for the first medieval commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics. These commentaries were produced by Byzantine philosophers in twelfth-century Constantinople.

• Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World

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  • Editor Wim Klooster
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  • The twelve essays explore three connected aspects of European expansion in the period between 1500 and 1900 - migration, trade, and slavery - with some attention given to present-day echoes from that era.

• The Multiple Meaning of Scripture

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  • Editor Ineke Spijker
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  • The articles in this volume explore early-Christian and medieval biblical exegesis as the site of discourse on theological, philosophical and political issues and of the hermeneutics investigating the relation between the surface and the deeper meaning of the text.

• Myth in History, History in Myth

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  • Editors Laura Cruz; Willem Frijhoff
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  • Based on the proceedings of a 2005 conference, this volume re-examines the role of Dutch social and patriotic myths. Using recent methodological approaches, the essays assess how the Dutch perceived their myths and how they were treated by previous historians.