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This book deals with public debate during the Investiture Contest (ca. 1040-1122). During this revolutionary struggle between the secular and the religious powers, polemical writers contributed to the arguably first 'public debate' in medieval Europe. A close reading of a selection of these polemics offers new views on the functioning of the medieval public sphere as well as how the public framework circumscribing the writers led to argumentative innovations. These include an increasing concern with interpretation and contextualisation, resulting in a more critical and probing intellectual community. Public debate during the Contest taught intellectuals how to argue in public and in that respect transferred a lasting legacy to the later Middle Ages and beyond.
Price: $280.00
Pages: 774
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
13 November 2007
ISBN: 9789004158849
Format: Hardcover
"Ein systematischer Zugriff auf das polemische Schrifttum des späten 11. und frühen 12.Jh...Wer eine umfassende Charaktisierung wichtiger Streitschriften auf den neuesten Forschungsstand benötigt, is mit M.s Arbeit gut bedient".
Oliver Münsch, Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 65,1 (2009), 225-226.
"(...)Das Werk schärft den Blick auf die Wirkung der Streitschriften erheblich und wird daher zum Standardwerk der libelli de lite avancieren."
Florian Hartmann, Quellen und Forschungen 88 (2008) 660-661.
Oliver Münsch, Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 65,1 (2009), 225-226.
"(...)Das Werk schärft den Blick auf die Wirkung der Streitschriften erheblich und wird daher zum Standardwerk der libelli de lite avancieren."
Florian Hartmann, Quellen und Forschungen 88 (2008) 660-661.
Leidulf Melve, Ph.D. (2005) in History, University of Bergen, is Post-Doctoral fellow at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen. He has published on intellectual history, historical theory and method, literacy-studies and political history.