Between creativity and norm-making : tensions in the early modern era / edited by Sigrid Muller, Cornelia Schweiger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This volume deals with contrasting developments in the period between 1400-1550. It is one that is characterized by a search for greater personal liberty and more opportunities for creative expression, on the one hand, and a quest to secure stability by establishing binding norms, on the other.

Contributors; Introduction: Between Creativity and Norm-Making; From Virtue Ethics to Normative Ethics? Tracing Paradigm Shifts in Fifteenth-Century Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics; Sine Auctoritate Nulla Disciplina Est Perfecta: Medieval Music Theory in Search of Normative Foundations; ""Ÿeglichs Nãch Sín Vermugen": Johannes Nider's Idea of Conscience; Amt, Lehramt, Charisma. Die Bedeutung von Prudentia, Discretio und Norm zur Zeit der Ersten Melker Reform; „...Den Seelen helfen". Neues und Traditionelles in der Spiritualität des Ignatius von Loyola und der ersten Jesuiten

Business Morality at the Dawn of Modernity: The Cases of Angelo Corbinelli and Cosimo De' MediciAnthropology Before and After the Discovery of America: Continuity and Change in the Question of the Sameness of Souls; The Change of Geographical Worldviews and Francisco De Vitoria's Foundation of a Modern Cosmopolitanism; The Better Human Being: The Dispute on Morality in Humanism and the Reformation; Justification Theology and Human Action: On the Foundation of Ethics in Early Lutheranism

Confession as an Instrument of Church Discipline: A Study of Catholic and Lutheran Confessional Manuals from the 16th and 17th Centuries"Policing" and Morality: On the State Regulation of Faith and Morality in the Policy Decrees of the Early Modern Period; Beholding Saint Christopher: A Contrast to the Belief in Death; Bibliography; Index Personarum; Index Rerum

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