Scholarship and Politics in the Middle Ages: Collected Studies

353 Pages·1978·15.029 MB·English

by  Walter Ullmann

Scholarship and Politics
in the Middle Ages
Some Variorum Reprints:
JOHN W. CLARK
The Care of Books. An Essay on the Development of Libraries and
their Fittings, from the earliest times to the end of the 18th Century
Cambridge 1902 edition
J. DELAVILLE LE ROULX
Les Hospitaliers ä Rhodes jusqu’ä la mort de Philibert de Naillac
(1310-1421)
Paris 1913 edition
NICOLAS IORGA
Philippe de Mezieres (1327—1405) et la croisade au XIVe siede
Paris 1896 edition
RUY GONZALES DE CLAVIJO
The Spanish Embassy to Samarkand 1403—1406
St Petersburg 1881 edition
OSKAR HALECKI
Un empereur de Byzance ä Rome
Warsaw 1930 edition
In the Collected Studies Series:
W.H.C.FREND
Religion Popular and Unpopular in the Early Christian Centuries
WALTER ULLMANN
The Church and the Law in the Earlier Middle Ages
WALTER ULLMAN
The Papacy and Political Ideas in the Middle Ages
EDMOND-RENE LABANDE
Histoire de TEurope occidentale. Xl-XIVe s.
EDMOND-RENE LABANDE
Spirituality et vie litteraire de TOccident. Xe-XIVe s.
PAUL MEYVAERT
Benedict, Gregory, Bede and Others
LINOS POLITIS
Paleographie et litterature byzantine et neo-grecque
AUGUST HEISENBERG
Quellen und Studien zur spätbyzantinischen Geschichte
JEAN DARROUZES
Litterature et histoire des textes byzantins
Professor Walter Ullmann
Walter Ullmann
Scholarship and Politics
in the Middle Ages
Collected Studies
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface i—v
I The Constitutional Significance of Constantine
the Great’s Settlement 1—16
In: Journal of Ecclesiastical History 27
(University Press. Cambridge, 1976)
II Über die rechtliche Bedeutung der spätrömischen
Kaisertitulatur für das Papsttum 23—43
In: Ex Aequo et Bono, Willibald M. Plöchl zum 70.
Geburtstag (Universitätsverlag Wagner. Innsbruck, 1977)
III Reflections on the Medieval Empire 89—108
In: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society,
fifth series, 14 (London, 1964)
IV A Scottish Charter and its Place in
Medieval Canon Law 225—241
In: The Juridical Review, 61 (W. Green & Son.
Edinburgh, 1949)
V Some Reflections on the Opposition of
Frederick II to the Papacy 3—26
In: Archivio Storico Pugliese, 13 (Cressati. Bari, 1960)
VI Die Bulle “Unam Sanctam”:
Rückblick und Ausblick AS—11
In: Römische Historische Mitteilungen, 16
(Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Rom-Wien, 1974)
312529
VII Boniface VIII and his Contemporary
Scholarship 58-87
In: Journal of Theological Studies, new series,
27 (Qarendon Press. Oxford, 1976)
VIII Dante’s “Monarchia” as an Illustration of a
Politico-Religious “Renovatio” 101-113
In: Traditio-Krisis-Renovatio aus theologischer Sicht.
Festschrift Winfried Zeller zum 65. Geburtstag
(Eiwert Verlag. Marburg, 1976)
IX Zur Entwicklung des Souveränitätsbegriffs
im Spätmittelalter 9-27
In: Festschrift Nikolaus Grass zum 60. Geburtstag,
1 (Universitätsverlag Wagner. Innsbruck, 1974/75)
X John Baconthorpe as a Canonist 223-246
In: Church and Government in the Middle Ages:
Essays presented to C. R. Cheney on his 70th Birthday
(University Press. Cambridge, 1976)
XI The Medieval Interpretation of Frederick I’s
Authentic “Habita” 101-136
In: Studi in memoria di Paolo Koschaker: L ’Europa
e il Diritto Romano (A. Giuffrb. Milano, 1953)
XII The Delictal Responsibility of Medieval
Corporations 77-96
In: The Law Quarterly Review, 64
(Stevens & Sons. London, 1948)
XIII A Disputable “Consuetudo contra Legem” in
the later Middle Ages 85-94
In: Butterworth’s South African Law Review
(Memorial Volume for Herbert F. Jolowicz, 3,
Durban, 1956)
XIV A Greek Demarche on the Eve of the
Council of Florence 337-352
In: Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 26
(University Press. Cambridge, 1975)
XV The Future of Medieval History 1 -30
An Inaugural Lecture (University Press.
Cambridge, 1973)
Index 1-8
This volume contains a total of 358 pages

PREFACE
This volume completes the trilogy of my collected studies on
specific themes relating to the period between the early Christian
era and the eve of the Reformation. The focal point of this volume
is the interrelationship between pure, mainly academic scholarship
and the actuality of the political situation. The interdependence of
scholarship and practical politics proved itself mutually fructifying
and beneficial. Governmental measures formed the topics of
lectures and books and tracts, incited academic interest and pro¬
foundly affected the development of principles. Vice-versa, as
often as not the academic teachers and universities as corporations
initiated and propelled certain governmental measures and in turn
gave rise to political principles which were sometimes of con¬
siderable dimensions and reverberated through the subsequent
ages. A case in point is the new orientation in outlook which with
quite astonishing rapidity engulfed scholarship in the thirteenth
century, for its Aristotelian-inspired naturalism was a well-nigh
perfect pikce justificative for the already conspicuous naturalism
in non-academic circles, pursuits and environs. The concomitant
secularism and the consequential de-mundanization of a good deal
that was hitherto comprehended within an ecclesiological purview,
resulted in dismemberment and fragmentation of what was once
considered one indivisible whole.
It was — as so often in history and especially in medieval history —
the effect of challenge which acted as a driving force. Challenge of
hitherto unquestioned premises and assumptions produced an
ineluctable dynamic reaction in the literal meaning of the term.