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Author Connell, Charles W., author

Title Popular opinion in the Middle Ages : channeling public ideas and attitudes / Charles W. Connell
Published Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2016]

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Series Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture, 1864-3396 ; volume 18
Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 18. 1864-3396
Contents Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Constructing the Public, its Opinion and its Media of Influence -- Chapter 2. The Peace of God and Growing Awareness of the "Public" -- Chapter 3. Investiture and Reform Appeal to the Populus -- Chapter 4. Heresy as the Public Challenge to Orthodoxy -- Chapter 5. Influence and Challenge: the Power of the Crusades in their Own Public Sphere -- Chapter 6. Broadening the Public Culture in the Later Middle Ages -- Chapter 7. Community, Representation, and the Populus in Practice and Theory -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary This book provides a needed overview of the scholarship on medieval public culture and popular movements such as the Peace of God, heresy, and the crusades and illustrates how a changing sense of the populus, the importance of publics and public opinion and public spheres was influential in the evolution of medieval cultures. Public opinion did play an important role, even in the Middle Ages; it did not wait until the era of modern history to do so. Using modern research on such aspects of culture as textual communities, large and small publics, cults, crowds, rumor, malediction, gossip, dispute resolution and the European popular revolution, the author focuses on the Peace of God movement, the era of Church reform in the tenth and eleventh centuries, the rise and combat of heresy, the crusades, and the works of fourteenth-century political thinkers such as Marsiglio of Padua regarding the role of the populus as the basis for the analysis. The pattern of changes reflected in this study argues that just as in the modern world the simplistic idea of "the public‎" was a phantom. Instead there were publics large and small that were influential in shaping the cultures of the era under review
Analysis Public culture
propaganda
public opinion
sermons
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Public opinion -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Civilization, Medieval.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Civilization, Medieval
Public opinion
Mittelalter
Öffentliche Meinung
SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 476-1492. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045690
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016058226
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