1st Edition

Social Struggles in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)

By Max Beer Copyright 2011
    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1924, Max Beer's work comprises the history of social thought from the fourth to the fourteenth century. He considers in detail the heretical social movement and the story is brought up to the period of the peasants' wars and the social struggles in the towns, which form the prelude to modern times. The work also deals with the period from the latter half of the fourteenth century to the outbreak of the French Revoluion. 

    Part I: The Social Thought of the Middle Ages 1. The Essence and Sources of Medieval Communism  2 Gnosticism and Mysticism  3. Neo-Platonism: Plotinus  4. Natural Law in the Middle Ages  5. Roman and Christian Natural Law  Part II: Migration of Nations and Reorganisation  6. The Teutonic Races  7. The Church  8. The Cloistral-Communistic Settlements  Part III: From Communism to Private Property  9. The Economic Conditions of Western and Central Europe  10. Joachim of Floris; Amalric of Bena  11. S. Francis of Assisi; Duns Scotus; Marsilius of Padua; William of Ockham  12. S. Dominic de Guzman; S. Thomas Aquinas  Part IV: The Essence of the Heretical-Social Movement  13. Spirtual Tendencies  14. The Cathari  15. The Cathari and Communism  16. The Inquisition  Part V: The Spread and Persecution of the Cathari  17. Bulgaria and Bogomili  18. Italy: The Struggle Between the Pope and the Emperor; Arnoldists, Humiliati, Apostolic Brethren  19. France: Waldenses, Languedoc, Albigenses  20. Flanders: Beguins and Beghards, Lollards  21. Germany: Waldenses, Bguins and Beghards, Ortliebians, Brethren of the Free Spirit, the German Mystics, the Brethren of the Common Lot

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    Max Beer