The measure of multitude
Subtitle: population in medieval thought
By: Peter Biller.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
Subjects: Population -- History; Demography -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-452) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction to medieval demographic thought; title: PART 1. THE CHURCH AND GENERATION; title: 2. Marriage and the Church's marriage-texts; title: Appendix: Guide to Peter the Lombard's Four Books of Sentences; title: 3. William of Auvergne; title: 4. Equal or unequal numbers of men and women; title: 5. The precept of marriage and sufficient multiplication; title: 6. Avoidance of offspring (i): the general picture; title: 7. Avoidance of offspring (ii): Canon law and Sentences commentaries; title: 8. Avoidance of offspring (iii): the pastoral picture; title: Appendix: William of Pagula, Oculus sacerdotis; title: PART 2. THE MAP OF THE WORLD; title: 9. Inhabitation of the world; title: PART 3. ARISTOTLE AND MULTITUDE; title: o1. Animals and life-span; title: 11. The Politics (i): reception; title: 12. The Politics (ii): age at marriage; title: 13. The Politics (iii): multitude; title: PART 4. THE LIGHT OF COMMON DAY; title: 14. The bulging circuit of Florence; title: Epigraph: The climate of thought; title: Bibliography; title: Index of Manuscripts; title: General Index.