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Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages - Prophets and their Critics from Scholasticism to Humanism (Hardcover)
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Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages - Prophets and their Critics from Scholasticism to Humanism (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages rethinks the role of
prophecy in the Middle Ages by examining how professional
theologians responded to new assertions of divine inspiration.
Drawing on fresh archival research and detailed study of
unpublished manuscript sources from the twelfth to fourteenth
centuries, this volume argues that the task of defining prophetic
authority became a crucial intellectual and cultural enterprise as
university-trained theologians confronted prophetic claims from lay
mystics, radical Franciscans, and other unprecedented visionaries.
In the process, these theologians redescribed their own activities
as prophetic by locating inspiration not in special predictions or
ecstatic visions but in natural forms of understanding and in the
daily work of ecclesiastical teaching and ministry. Instead of
containing the spread of prophetic privilege, however, scholastic
assessments of prophecy from Peter Lombard and Thomas Aquinas to
Peter John Olivi and Nicholas Trevet opened space for claims of
divine insight to proliferate beyond the control of theologians. By
the turn of the fourteenth century, secular Italian humanists could
lay claim to prophetic authority on the basis of their intellectual
powers and literary practices. From Hugh of St Victor to Albertino
Mussato, reflections on and debates over prophecy reveal medieval
clerics, scholars, and reformers reshaping the contours of
religious authority, the boundaries of sanctity and sacred texts,
and the relationship of tradition to the new voices of the Late
Middle Ages.
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