Continuity and Rupture in the Long Middle Ages: Religion, Law and Interpretation (Variorum Collected Studies)

The “Long Middle Ages” indicates a span of time extending from Antiquity, across the Middle Ages, to the Early Modern period.The author tries to understand factors of historical continuity binding this period together and the periodic scenes of violent change that disrupted societies and traditions.The Long Middle Ages were established on classical and biblical foundations, while each generation interpreted and expanded on those origins.The cohesion of the Long Middle Ages was brought about by continuous acts of reflection and renascence.Scholarly practices and ideas of Antiquity were taken up in the monasteries and cathedral schools of the Middle Ages, while during the Renaissance, and then the Baroque period, thinkers looked back to Antiquity and to the Middle Ages. Continuity and Rupture in the Long Middle Ages is an interdisciplinary approach to intellectual history, which puts the history of ideas in the context of cultural, political, religious, and legal history.Medieval history