Description: Human Agency in Medieval Society, 1, Paperback by Epurescu-pascovici, Ionut, ISBN 1837652074, ISBN-13 9781837652075, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages. "Of fundamental importance for any discipline dealing with past societies and cultures. One of the most wide-ranging, sophisticated and imaginativs on medieval history that I have read in a very long time. The way in which the author defines, traces and analyses agency is stunningly original. It will make an immensely important contribution to our understanding of high and late medieval Europe." Professor Björn Weiler, University of Aberystwyth What did it mean to be an autonomous agent in European medieval society? This book aims to answer that fundamental question, via an examination of a mosaic of case studies drawn from the literate urban middle strata and the lower and middle-rank aristocracy. The social imaginary that informs individual conduct, the patterns of strategic action, and the individuals' sense of effectiveness in the world are reconstructed from "ego-documents", a broad category that includes first-person charters, autobiographical insertions in chronicles, private registers, and memoirs. These range from the better-known, such as the Ménagier de Paris and the histories of Galbert of Bruges and Salimbene of Parma, to the equally fascinating but more seldom explored French livres de raison and Italian ricordanze. Th's larger aim is to historicise the autonomous moral agent. Neither belief in divine intervention nor feudal relations inhibited individuals' social agency. The emphasis on hierarchy and order in medieval normative texts is shown in a different light, as part of the effort to restrain social subalterns, whose potential for agency caused anxiety. Whereas power is often structural, an effect of institutions which, however, were only just developing, th argues that agency is a more apposite construct for capturing the salient medieval concerns with the possibilities and effects of individual and collective action.
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Book Title: Human Agency in Medieval Society, 1100-1450
Number of Pages: 316 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Human Agency in Medieval Society, 1100-1450
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Subject: Civilization, Medieval, Europe / Medieval
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2024
Item Weight: 16.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Ionuț Epurescu-Pascovici
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
