The Measure of Multitude Population in Medieval Thought,9780198206323

The Measure of Multitude Population in Medieval Thought

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ISBN13: 9780198206323
ISBN10: 0198206321
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This innovative study challenges the view that medieval thought was fundamentally abstract. He describes what medieval people 'thought' about population, studying the texts which contained their thought, and examining the medieval realities which shaped it, such as birth, birth-control, sex-ratio, marriage ages, length of life, and the population of the Holy Land.

Author Biography

Peter Biller is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York.

Table of Contents

Notes on Plates xi
Abbreviations xv
Introduction to medieval demographic thought
1(18)
PART 1. THE CHURCH AND GENERATION
Marriage and the Church's marriage-texts
19(41)
Appendix: Guide to Peter the Lombard's Four Books of Sentences
William of Auvergne
60(29)
Equal or unequal numbers of men and women
89(22)
The precept of marriage and sufficient multiplication
111(24)
Avoidance of offspring (i): the general picture
135(23)
Avoidance of offspring (ii): Canon law and Sentences commentaries
158(20)
Avoidance of offspring (iii): the pastoral picture
178(39)
Appendix: William of Pagula, Oculus sacerdotis
PART 2. THE MAP OF THE WORLD
Inhabitation of the world
217(36)
PART 3. ARISTOTLE AND MULTITUDE
Animals and life-span
253(43)
The Politics (i): reception
296(30)
The Politics (ii): age at marriage
326(31)
The Politics (iii): multitude
357(28)
PART 4. THE LIGHT OF COMMON DAY
The bulging circuit of Florence
385(33)
Epigraph: The climate of thought 418(3)
Bibliography 421(32)
Index of Manuscripts 453(2)
General Index 455

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