The Measure of Multitude
The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought

The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought


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Peter Biller's innovative study challenges the view that medieval thought was fundamentally abstract. He shows how, by 1300, medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, to get its measure, was developing, and the author describes how medieval people thought about population through both the texts which contained their thought and the medieval realities which shaped it. He asserts that they found many topics - such as the history of population and variations between polygamy, monogamy and virginity-through theology, and that crusade and travel literature supplied the themes of Muslim polygamy, military numbers, the colonization of the Holy Land, and the populations of Mongolia and China. Translations of Aristotle provided not only new themes but also a new vocabulary with which to think about population. The Measure of Multitude sets academic discussions of population alongside the medieval facts of 'birth, and copulation, and death' to provide a challenging new approach to the study of medieval demographic thought.

Table of Contents:
1: Introduction to medieval demographic thought Part 1: The Church and generation 2: Marriage and the Church's texts 3: William of Auvergne 4: An equal or unequal number of men and women 5: The precept of marriage and sufficient multiplication 6: Avoidance of offspring (i): the general picture 7: Avoidance of offspring (ii): Canon law and Sentences commentaries 8: Avoidance of offspring (iii): the pastoral picture Part 2: The Map of the World 9: Inhabitation of the world Part 3: Aristotle and Multitude 10: Animals and the life-span 11: The Politics (i): reception 12: The Politics (ii): age at marriage 13: The Politics (iii): multitude The Light of the Common Day 14: The Bulging circuit of Florence Epigraph: The Climate of Thought Bibliography Index of Manuscripts General Index

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`Peter Biller ends his book with a question: is medieval demographic thought recognisably there? He has left his readers with only one possible answer - and in doing so changed the way we must think not just about the medieval past but about what has come after in terms of understanding the world.' Janet Nelson, History Today `Last but not least, and typical of this book's intellectual boldness and elegance, is the way its first part is linked with the second, by a beautifully functional bridge.' Janet Nelson, History Today


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198206323
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Weight: 889 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198206321
  • Publisher Date: 14 Dec 2000
  • Height: 243 mm
  • No of Pages: 506
  • Sub Title: Population in Medieval Thought
  • Width: 163 mm


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