The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought - Tapa dura

Biller, Peter

 
9780198206323: The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought
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ISBN 10: 0198206321 ISBN 13: 9780198206323
Editorial: OUP Oxford, 2000

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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OUP Oxford
Año de publicación
2000
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0198206321
ISBN 13 
9780198206323
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Número de páginas
506
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9780199265596: The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought

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ISBN 10:  0199265593 ISBN 13:  9780199265596
Editorial: Oxford University Press, USA, 2003
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