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Albertanus of Brescia - The Pursuit of Happiness in the Early Thirteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Albertanus of Brescia - The Pursuit of Happiness in the Early Thirteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Albertanus of Brescia is an important figure in the cultural
history of late medieval and Renaissance Italy. He is best known
among literary scholars for the influence of his writings on
Brunetto Latini, John Gower, and Geoffrey Chaucer. In addition, his
sermons have received attention as part of the history of lay
confraternities and lay preaching in the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries. James M. Powell shows that Albertanus's contributions
considerably surpass even these notable attainments.Powell contends
that Albertanus was an original social theorist who drew on his
experience with religious confraternities and with the law to
develop a theory of consent. Albertanus developed the idea that
society rested on voluntary acceptance of a rule, much as did
religious life. This acceptance laid the foundation for social
cohesion and legal enforcement. Albertanus's ideas were to find
great prominence in the later Middle Ages. Powell's purpose in
writing Albertanus of Brescia goes beyond the study of his
eponymous subject. Through Albertanus, Powell examines how major
developments of the twelfth century began to find expression in the
mind of an early thirteenth-century secular thinker. In Albertanus,
Powell perceives an individual bringing received, bookish authority
into confrontation with lived experience. To Powell, the example of
Albertanus suggests a much more complex picture of medieval
approaches to social theory than that previously evident in the
literature.This is the first book-length study of Albertanus and
his works. It will be of particular interest to students and
scholars of medieval, Italian, intellectual, and literary history,
and political theory.
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