European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2009

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• Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706)

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: A.C. Neele
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  • This book is a first monograph on the life and work of Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706). Expanding the new interest in Protestant scholasticism this book portrays Mastricht as a post-Reformation reformed theologian, philosopher and Christian Hebraist. The result provides a fresh appraisal, in particular, on the relationship of biblical exegesis, doctrine, polemic, and praxis.

• Philosophical Debates at Paris in the Early Fourteenth Century

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Stephen Brown; Thomas Dewender; Theo Kobusch
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  • Focusing on Meister Eckhart, John Duns Scotus, Hervaeus Natalis, Durandus of St.-Pourçain, Walter Burley and Petrus Aureoli, this volume investigates the nature of philosophical and theological issues and arguments at the University of Paris in the early fourteenth century.

• The Place of the Mediterranean in Modern Israeli Identity

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  • Author: A. Nocke
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  • This book offers new perspectives on Israel’s evolving Mediterranean identity, which centers around the longing to find a "natural" place in the region. It explores Mediterraneanism as reflected in popular music, literature, architecture, and daily life, and analyzes ways in which the notion comprises cultural identity and polical realities.

• Polluting the Sacred

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  • Author: D.E. Thiery
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  • Drawing on spiritual and legal sources, this book provides a novel perspective on how late medieval Christianity problematized parishioners' use of violence and how parishioners tried to reconcile the demands of their faith with cultural norms that honored violent conduct.

• Poverty’s Proprietors: Ownership and Mortal Sin at the Origins of the Observant Movement

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  • Author: J.D. Mixson
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  • This study explores the origins of Observant reform in the monasteries and canonries of the southern Empire. Through close readings of unpublished texts, it offers fresh perspectives on the history of religious community, reform, and the church in the fifteenth century.

• Pre-Modern European Economy

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: P. Malanima
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  • The book provides an overall reconstruction of the European economy, in the global context, from the High Middle Ages until the beginning of Modern Growth in the 19th century.

• Preaching, Sermon and Cultural Change in the Long Eighteenth Century

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Joris Eijnatten
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  • This study offers a broad outline of the history of the eighteenth-century sermon. Thematically, it provides an overview of the research over the past three decades as well as suggesting new approaches to the history of preaching.

• Property, Piracy and Punishment: Hugo Grotius on War and Booty in De iure praedae

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Hans Blom
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  • Sixteen essays discuss De iure praedae – Hugo Grotius’s 1604-1605 commentary on booty –, its sources, circumstances and consequences, and explore how Grotius the humanist, the theologian, the jurist and the politician concur in this his first exercise in natural law and rights.