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The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Originally published in 1966. The Individual and Society in the
Middle Ages, based on three guest lectures given at Johns Hopkins
University in 1965, explores the place of the individual in
medieval European society. Looking at legal sources and political
ideology of the era, Ullmann concludes that, for most of the Middle
Ages, the individual was defined as a subject rather than a
citizen, but the modern concept of citizenship gradually supplanted
the subject model from the late Middle Ages onward. Ullmann lays
out the theological basis of the political theory that cast the
medieval individual as an inferior, abstract subject. The
individual citizen who emerged during the late Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, by contrast, was an autonomous participant in affairs
of state. Several intellectual trends made this humanistic
conception of the individual possible, among them the
rehabilitation of vernacular writing during the thirteenth century
and the growing interest in nature, natural philosophy, and natural
law. However, Ullmann points to feudalism as the single most
important medieval institution that laid the groundwork for the
emergence of the modern citizen.
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