‎MENTION, Michal‎
‎Power‎

‎Authority and Power in the Medieval Church, c. 1000-c. 1500‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 412 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:19 b/w, 2 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503585291.‎

‎Summary While they often go hand-in-hand and the distinction between the two is frequently blurred, authority and power are distinct concepts and abilities - this was a problem that the Church tussled with throughout the High and Late Middle Ages. Claims of authority, efforts to have that authority recognized, and the struggle to transform it into more tangible forms of power were defining factors of the medieval Church's existence. As the studies assembled here demonstrate, claims to authority by members of the Church were often in inverse proportion to their actual power - a problematic paradox which resulted from the uneven and uncertain acceptance of ecclesiastical authority by lay powers and, indeed, fellow members of the ecclesia. The chapters of this book reveal how clerical claims to authority and power were frequently debated, refined, opposed, and resisted in their expression and implementation. The clergy had to negotiate a complex landscape of overlapping and competing claims in pursuit of their rights. They waged these struggles in arenas that ranged from papal, royal, and imperial curiae, through monastic houses, law courts and parliaments, urban religious communities and devotional networks, to contact and conflict with the laity on the ground; the weapons deployed included art, manuscripts, dress, letters, petitions, treatises, legal claims, legates, and the physical arms of allied lay powers. In an effort to further our understanding of this central aspect of ecclesiastical history, this interdisciplinary volume, which effects a broad temporal, geographical, and thematic sweep, points the way to new avenues of research and new approaches to a traditional topic. It fuses historical methodologies with art history, gender studies, musicology, and material culture, and presents fresh insights into one of the most significant institutions of the medieval world. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, List of Illustrations Introduction - THOMAS W. SMITH Part I: Concepts of Papal Authority Privilegium Romanae Ecclesiae: The Language of Papal Authority over the Church in the Eleventh Century - I. S. ROBINSON Papal Authority and Power during the Minority of Emperor Frederick?II - BENEDICT WIEDEMANN The Medieval Papacy and the Concepts of 'Anti-Judaism' and 'Anti-Semitism' - REBECCA RIST The Place of the Papacy in Four Illuminated Histories from Thirteenth-Century England - LAURA CLEAVER Part II: Representatives of Papal Authority The Interface between Papal Authority and Heresy: The Legates of Honorius?III in Languedoc, 1216-1227 - THOMAS?W. SMITH Papal Legates in Thirteenth-Century Hungary: Authority, Power, Reality - G BOR BARAB S Pope Alexander?IV, King Henry?III and the Imperial Succession: Master Rostand's Role in the Sicilian Business, 1255-1258 - PHILIPPA?J. MESIANO Cardinal Gerard of Parma as Co-Ruler in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1285-1289 - JEAN DUNBABIN Part III: The Papacy and the East The Power of Tradition: The Papacy and the Churches of the East, c.?1100-1300 - ??BERNARD HAMILTON Politics and Power in Latin Efforts at Church Union, 1300-1360 - JAMES HILL Modifications to Papal Trade Licences at the Avignon Curia - MIKE CARR Part IV: Cultures of Ecclesiastical Authority and Power The Late Medieval Papal Chapel: A?Culture of Power and Authority - MATTHEW ROSS Dress to Impress: Jacque de Vitry's Clothing and Episcopal Self-Fashioning - JAN VANDEBURIE Imaging Power: Gender, Power, and Authority in Florentine Piety - CATHERINE LAWLESS Royal Women, the Franciscan Order, and Ecclesiastical Authority in Late Medieval Bohemia and the Polish Duchies - KIRSTY DAY Part V: Ecclesiastical Communities and Collective Authority and Power Shall the First Be Last? Order and Disorder Amongst Henry?II's Bishops - NICHOLAS VINCENT Eustathios's Life of a Married Priest and the Struggle for Authority in Twelfth-Century Byzantium - MAROULA PERISANIDI The Bishop, the Convent and the Community: The Attempt to Enclose the Nuns of S.?Giustina, Lucca, 1301-1302 - CHRISTINE MEEK Archbishop Walter Reynolds, the Clerical gravamina, and Parliamentary Petitions from the Clergy in the Early Fourteenth Century - MATTHEW PHILLIPS The Power of the Cardinals: Decision-Making at the Papal Curia in Avignon - MELANIE BRUNNER Negotiation and Conflict: The Templars' and Hospitallers' Relations with Diocesan Bishops in Britain and Ireland - HELEN?J. NICHOLSON Hospitaller and Teutonic Order Lordships in Germany - KARL BORCHARDT Index‎

‎Narrating Power and Authority in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiography across East and West‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 217 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:3 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503590653.‎

‎Summary This collection of essays explores the multifaceted representation of power and authority in a variety of late antique and medieval hagiographical narratives (Lives, Martyr Acts, oneiric and miraculous accounts). The narratives under analysis, written in some of the major languages of the Islamicate world and the Christian East and Christian West ? Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Latin, Middle Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Persian ? prominently feature a diverse range of historical and fictional figures from a wide cross-section of society ? from female lay saints in Italy and Zoroastrians in Sasanian and Islamic Iran to apostles and bishops and emperors and caliphs. Each chapter investigates how power and authority were narrated from above (courts/saints) and below (saints/laity) and, by extension, navigated in various communities. As each chapter delves into the specific literary and social scene of a particular time, place, or hagiographer, the volume as a whole offers a broad view; it brings to the fore important shared literary and social historical aspects such as the possible itineraries of popular narratives and motifs across Eurasia and commonly held notions in the religio-political thought worlds of hagiographers and their communities. Through close readings and varied analyses, this collection contributes to the burgeoning interest in reading hagiography as literature while it offers new perspectives on the social and religious history of late antique and medieval communities. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations, Abbreviations, Notes on Transliteration Introduction ? GHAZZAL DABIRI Part 1. Saints at the Courts of Rulers Between Emperor and Caliph: The Representation of Power Relations in the Life of John of Damascus ? PETROS TSAGKAROPOULOS The Caliph, the Jew, and the Bishop: Power and Religious Controversy in the Georgian Life of John of Edessa ? DAMIEN LABADIE Whose Dream Comes True? Negotiation of Primacy in the 'Legend of Theodosius and Theophilus' ? MARIA CONTERNO Part 2. Authority at the Cross-Sections of Society Getting Naked for God: Social and Juridical Implications of Renouncing Female Vanities in the Vitae of Mystics of Medieval Italy ? FEDERICA BOLDRINI Zoroaster's Legend in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages ? CARLO G. CERETI Who's the Authority Around Here? Zoroastrians as Sites of Negotiation in ?A???r's Taz?kirat al-Awliy?' and Il?h?n?mah ? GHAZZAL DABIRI Part 3. Mapping the Terrain of Power Two Churches, Two saints, One Island: The Narrative Construction of a Conflict between Tamasos and Salamis (Cyprus) through Heracleides and Barnabas ? MA EUL ROUQUETTE Strangers in a Strange Land: Alienation, Authority, and Powerlessness in Georgian Hagiography (Tenth-Eleventh c.) ? NIKOLOZ ALEKSIDZE State Power, Hagiography, and the Social Shape of the Past: Re-Reading the Gesta Martyrum Romanorum ? JASON MORALEE Part 4. Negotiating Power and Authority Disguising Himself or Describing the Other? Muslim-Christian Encounters and Narratives of Sar? Saltuk in Ottoman Times ? SIBEL KOCAER Power and Prophecy in Late Antique Hagiography: The Life of Saint Daniel the Stylite ? FABRIZIO PETORELLA The Accommodating Queen: The Miracles of the Virgin Mary in the Legenda Aurea ? JEREMIAH A. LASQUETY-REYES Index‎

‎Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 472 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 12 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503611082.‎

‎Summary While Northern and East Central Europe are often considered to have been peripheral parts of medieval Latin Christendom, they nevertheless embraced many of the same cultural impulses found in more central areas. Key among these was the way in which social elites, in the first centuries after the introduction of Christianity, recognized the potential to exploit the cult of saints as a way of legitimizing their own social standing. Taking this thematic focus as its starting point, this volume explores the intersection of religion, power, and the reception and development of new impulses from abroad within Northern and East Central Europe. It does so by comparing and contrasting cults that emerged locally with cults that were imported to the region. Through this comparative overview, the chapters of this volume not only contribute to a more nuanced understanding of these outlying regions, but also shed new light on Latin Christian Europe as a whole. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Saints and Elites on the Periphery: An Introduction Steffen Hope, Grzegorz Pac, and J n Vi ar Sigur sson Part I. Non-native Saints Non-native Saints: Introduction Steffen Hope, Grzegorz Pac, and J n Vi ar Sigur sson 2. The Authority of the Virgin. The Use of the Marian Cult in the Legitimization of Power in the Kingdom of Hungary before 1300 Karen Stark 3. Aegis of Aegidius ? the Cult of St Giles in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Poland Mi?osz Sosnowski 4. The Apostles and Ecclesiastical Elites in Medieval Iceland. A Gregorian Hermeneutic Turn in the Medieval North Haraldur Hreinsson 5. From St Florian to St Stanislaus. The Legitimization of Ducal and Episcopal Power in Krak w in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Century Karolina Morawska 6. From St Olaf to the Relic of the Crown of Thorns. The Legitimization of Royal Power in Thirteenth-Century Norway Jerzy Pysiak 7. Sanctity in Service. Saints in the Legitimation of the Presence of the Dominicans in Hungary Eszter Konr d Part II. Native Saints Native Saints: Introduction Steffen Hope, Grzegorz Pac, and J n Vi ar Sigur sson 8. The Prague Nunnery and its Patroness, St Ludmila. Legitimization and Mutual Support Grzegorz Pac 9. Many Lives of One Man. Strategies for Building Legitimacy through the Story of St Wenceslas in Early and High Medieval Hagiography (940s-1260s) David Kalhous 10. The Cult of Saints in Elite Identity Construction in the Peripheries. The Cases of St Cnut of Denmark and St Wenceslas of Bohemia Kacper Bylinka 11. The Canonization Accounts of St Stephen of Hungary, St Thorlak of Sk lholt, and St Cnut of Odense. A Comparative Reading Haki Antonsson 12. Legitimizing Episcopal Power in Twelfth-Century Denmark through the Cult of Saints Steffen Hope 13. A Mutually Beneficial Relationship. Saints and the Legitimization of Elite Ecclesiastical Institutions in Sweden and Denmark before 1300 Sara Ellis Nilsson 14. The Liturgical Performance of Saints' Offices in Medieval Sweden. Multimodal and Performative Event in a Legitimizing Context Karin Lagergren 15. St Hedwig of Silesia. The First Dynastic Saint of the Piasts and the Legitimization of Power at a Time of Change in the Thirteenth Century Anna Agnieszka Dryblak 16. The Legitimization of Papal Power through the Cults of Royal Women in Thirteenth-Century East Central Europe Kirsty Day Conclusions 17. The Cult of Saints and the Legitimization of Ecclesiastical and Secular Elites on the Periphery: Conclusions Steffen Hope, Grzegorz Pac, and J n Vi ar Sigur sson Index‎

‎The Theory of Sea Power or the Conquest of the Sea as the Basic Law of War Maha‎

‎"The Theory of Sea Power or the Conquest of the Sea as the Basic Law of War Mahan A.T. The Impact of Maritime Power on the French Revolution and Empire. 1793-1812 study by Captain A.T. Mahan edited by N.P. Azbelev. In 2 Vol. 1-2./Teoriya Sea Power ili zavoevanie gospodstva na more kak osnovnoy zakon voyny Mekhen A.T. Vliyanie morskoy sily na Frantsuzskuyu revolyutsiyu i Imperiyu. 1793-1812 issledovanie kapitana A.T. Mekhena per. s angl. pod red. N.P. Azbeleva. V 2 t. T. 1-2. The Theory of Sea Power or the Conquest of the Sea as the Basic Law of War Mahan A.T. The Influence of Maritime Power on the French Revolution and Empire. 1793-1812 study by Captain A.T. Mahan edited by N.P. Azbelev. In 2 Vol. Vol. 1-2. St. Petersburg: Edition of His Imperial Highness the Heir Caesarevich Grand Duke Georgy Alexandrovich; Typography of the Maritime Ministry in the Admiralty 1897-1898. Vol. 1: XXIV 431. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-26cbab4b417cf5cf."‎

‎The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution , (Inland waterways - Railways - Other means of communication - Natural sources of power - Power from Steam - Electric power - Coal and other fuels - Iron and steel - Building for industry)‎

‎Heinemann - London Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1974 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon hardcover, under dust-jacket In-4 1 vol. - 207 pages‎

‎many illustrations in black and white and in colours reprinted with corrections, 1st was 1973 Contents, Chapitres : Brian Bracegirdle : An introduction to industrial archaeology - L.T.C. Rolt : Inland waterways - Charles E. Lee : Railways - A. Ridley : Other means of communication - Rex Wailes : Natural sources of power - Neil Cossons : Power from Steam - Brian Bowers : Electric power - Will Slatcher and Brian Bracegirdle : Coal and other fuels - W.K.V. Gale : Iron and steel - Jennifer Tann : Building for industry - Index étude très originale sur l'archéologie industrielle, principalement en Grande Bretagne, et largement illustrée, notamment de photographies récentes en couleurs‎