LEADER 03894nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910455972403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-44523-8 010 $a9786610445233 010 $a0-19-154249-0 035 $a(CKB)2460000000006012 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25159680 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000302819 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12115221 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000302819 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10274705 035 $a(PQKB)11201469 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3055283 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3055283 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10695410 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL44523 035 $a(OCoLC)922971941 035 $a(EXLCZ)992460000000006012 100 $a20010622d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe measure of multitude$b[electronic resource] $epopulation in medieval thought /$fPeter Biller 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (600p., [8]p. of plates ) $cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-820632-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [421]-452) and indexes. 327 $a1. Introduction to medieval demographic thought; PART 1: THE CHURCH AND GENERATION; 2. Marriage and the Church's texts; 3. William of Auvergne; 4. An equal or unequal number of men and women; 5. The precept of marriage and sufficient multiplication; 6. Avoidance of offspring (i): the general picture; 7. Avoidance of offspring (ii): Canon law and Sentences commentaries; 8. Avoidance of offspring (iii): the pastoral picture; PART 2: THE MAP OF THE WORLD; 9. Inhabitation of the world; PART 3: ARISTOTLE AND MULTITUDE; 10. Animals and the life-span; 11. The Politics (i): reception; 12. The Politics (ii): age at marriage; 13. The Politics (iii): multitude; THE LIGHT OF THE COMMON DAY; 14. The Bulging circuit of Florence; Epigraph: The Climate of Thought; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts; General Index 330 $aChallenging the view that medieval thought was abstract, this text shows that by 1300, society was beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptised. 330 $bPeter Biller's innovative study challenges the view that medieval thought was fundamentally abstract. He shows how, by 1300, medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, to get its measure, was developing, and the author describes how medieval people thought about population through both the texts which contained their thought and the medieval realities which shaped it. He asserts that they found many topics - such as the history of population and variations between polygamy, monogamy and virginity-through theology, and that crusade and travel literature supplied the themes of Muslim polygamy, military numbers, the colonization of the Holy Land, and the populations of Mongolia and China. Translations of Aristotle provided not only new themes but also a new vocabulary with which to think about population. The Measure of Multitude sets academic discussions of population alongside the medieval facts of 'birth, and copulation, and death' to provide a challenging new approach to the study of medieval demographic thought. 606 $aPopulation$xHistory 606 $aDemography$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPopulation$xHistory. 615 0$aDemography$xHistory. 676 $a304.6/0902 700 $aBiller$b Peter$020935 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455972403321 996 $aThe measure of multitude$91909184 997 $aUNINA