The Middle Ages Through Modern Eyes. A Historical Problem The Prothero Lecture

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 121-142
Author(s):  
Otto Gerhard Oexle
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Courtly Culture ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Byzantine Church ◽  
City State ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

The title of this essay can be interpreted in two ways. One possibility might be to show how our times in their thinking, patterns of behaviour, and institutional structures still continue to be shaped by that distant era of the Middle Ages. In other words, one could show the lingering impact of the Middle Ages until the present day. This sort of approach brings many things to mind: the division of Europe into East and West, through the Roman and the Byzantine church; medieval philosophy and the influential reception of Roman law and its effects which can still be discerned today; knighthood and courtly culture; the development of the ‘modern’ state; the continuing influence of social groups and their systems of values and institutions such as vassalage, the university, and the city state; and last but not least, the division into competing states and nations that is so distinctive for Europe.

scholarly journals Beirut law school and its place for continued Roman law traditions in late Antiquity and the Middle ages

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-119
Author(s):  
Malina Novkiriska-Stoyanova
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Law School ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
The University ◽  
The Middle Ages

The review is dedicated to a new and analytical legal and historical study of Dr. Piotr Sadowski, professor of Roman law at the University of Opole, Poland for the Beirut Law School, its teachers, students and its significant place as one of the three imperial law schools (along with Rome and Constantinople), approved by the Emperor Justinian, as well as its place for the continuation of Roman tradition in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Marais

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Reader
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Andre Malraux ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

This book explores the history and the vicissitudes of one of Paris’s most extraordinary areas, the Marais. Centrally located on the Right Bank, this neighbourhood was from the Middle Ages through to the eighteenth century the most fashionable in the city, headquarters of the nobility who endowed it with resplendent architecture. The Court’s move to Versailles and the Revolution of 1789 led to the quartier’s decline, so that in the nineteenth century and the earlier part of the twentieth it was in parlous shape, its fine buildings run down and often severely overcrowded. It escaped wholesale destruction in the post-War frenzy of modernization largely thanks to André Malraux, who as Culture Minister fostered the restoration of the area. Malraux’s efforts were, however, not immune from criticism, sometimes seen as a form of socio-economic cleansing with concomitant fossilization, and thus emblematic of the problems faced by a city which has always been torn between the preservation of its past and the need to adapt to social and historical change. The book focuses particularly on literary, cinematic and other artistic reproductions of the quartier, of which it attempts to provide a comprehensive overview, and foregrounds particularly its importance as home to and base of two highly significant minorities – the Jewish and the gay communities.

Legal Study in Utrecht in the late 1740s: The Education of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W Cairns
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Legal Study ◽  
The University ◽  
The Middle Ages

This chapter considers the experience of one Scottish student in the Netherlands, specifically the education of Sir David Dalrymple, third Baronet of Hailes (1726–1792). Unusually for a Scots lawyer of his era, he was educated at Eton and was admitted to the Middle Temple on August 8, 1744. In 1745 he moved to study at the University of Utrecht, remaining there until 1747. After public defence of his theses on February 20, 1748, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh on February 24. He was elevated to the Bench of the Court of Session in 1766, taking the judicial title of Lord Hailes. In 1776 he was also appointed one of the Commissioners of the Justiciary Court. Hailes is best remembered, however, for his work as an historian, particularly of the Middle Ages in Scotland.

Introduction

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Marenbon
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Middle Ages

This introductory chapter explains how medieval philosophy has hardly made an appearance before in this series of philosophy lectures, and why the author decided on a theme that brings together thinkers from the Middle Ages and the early modern period. It then briefly summarizes the arguments of the three main chapters and of the responses to them.

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