Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history In this first volume, Michael Mann examines interrelations between these elements from neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical Mediterranean age and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England It offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification; of city-states, militaristic empires and the persistent interaction between them; of the world salvation religions; and of the particular dynamism of medieval and early modern Europe It ends by generalizing about the nature of overall social development, the varying forms of social cohesion and the role of classes and class struggle in history First published in 1986, this new edition of Volume 1 includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of the work

The sources of social power

Introduction 1. Models for the memory 2. Descriptions of the neuropsychology of memory 3. Elementary memory design 4. The arts of memory 5. Memory and the ethics of reading 6. Memory and authority 7. Memory and the book Afterword Appendixes List of abbreviations Bibliography.

The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

The author examines the medieval literary tradition of allegory and relates it to contemporary advertising. Allegory is characterized by the use of metaphor, personification, and moral conflict. Th...

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Preface: a theory of justice? 1. Introductory themes: images of evenness 2. The Talion 3. The Talionic mint: funny money 4. The proper price of property in an eye 5. Teaching a lesson: pain and poetic justice 6. A pound of flesh 7. Remember me: mnemonics, debts (of blood), and the making of a person 8. Dismemberment and price lists 9. Of hands, hospitality, personal space and holiness 10. Satisfaction not guaranteed 11. Comparing values and the ranking game 12. Filthy lucre and holy dollars Conclusion.

Eye for an eye

Introduction 1. Images of market trade 2. Regulation of the market 3. The behaviour of market traders 4. An evolving market morality? Conclusion Bibliography.

Medieval Market Morality: Life, Law and Ethics in the English Marketplace, 1200-1500

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The vision of Piers Plowman : a critical edition of the B-text based on Trinity College Cambridge MS. B.15.17

One man's dream of a better society...PIERS PLOWMAN stands at the centre of medieval English literature along with Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES, which in many ways it complements. A weary wanderer falls asleep and dreams of a tower and a deep dungeon, and in between the whold of humanity pursuing its business and pleasure...but his dream becomes a profound vision of redemption, in which the corruptions and injustices that occur daily are laid open with passionate truthfulness in poetry that combines vigorous realism and probing argument with moments of epic sublimity and lyrical beauty. Edited by AVC Schmidt of Balliol College, Oxford, this is the B-Text. 'A marvel of comprehension' Derek Pearsall

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The Vision of Piers Plowman. A Critical Edition of the B-Text Based on Trinity College Cambridge MS B.15.17@@@Piers Plowman. An Edition of the C-Text

The vision of Piers Plowman : a critical edition of the B-text based on Trinity College Cambridge MS. B.15.17

The Vision of Piers the Plowman

The Vision Of William Concerning Piers The Plowman: In Three Parallel Texts Together With Richard The Redeless

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