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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-02-08 - Publisher: Duke University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 340
Pages: 340
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-30 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Medievalists reading and writing about and around authority-related themes lack clear definitions of its actual meanings in the medieval context. Authorities in
Language: en
Pages: 718
Pages: 718
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985-10-21 - Publisher: MIT Press
In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, wh
Language: en
Pages: 392
Pages: 392
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: BRILL
This volume provides relevant insights into medieval political legitimation, and its impact on political competition and notions of power. With a main focus on
Language: en
Pages: 361
Pages: 361
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book examines how mid-twentieth-century intellectuals' engagement with the Middle Ages shaped politics, art, and history.