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Love, the mightiest feeling that can inspirit human beings, and Marriage, the institution which, if not animated by this feeling, loses its sense and its soul, form the topics of this book, just as they were the themes of the Colloquium which, from May 16th to 18th 1978, was organized by the 'Instituut voor Middeleeuwse Studies' at the 'KU Leuven'. In fact, the fifteen papers collected here originate from communications held at this Colloquium. They focus in essence on 12th century society, culture and thought in Western Europe. However, it is unavoidable, and self-evident too, that more than one contribution bursts through this rather narrow compass, either to broach the currents in which certain phenomena are to be seen, or to open perspectives on surrounding cultures or contiguous periods.

Love --- History.

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Natural history

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Civilization, Classical --- Church history --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History

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« Si Strasbourg jouit d'une réputation glorieuse entre toutes les autres villes dans la chrétienté entière, elle ne l'a pas obtenue parce qu'elle s'est déclarée jadis pour la Confession d'Augsbourg - un grand nombre d'autres cités en ont fait de même - mais elle le doit à l'hospitalité et à la protection qu'elle a accordées à ces malheureux chrétiens, sans distinction de nationalité, persécutés pour leur foi. Elle les a arrachés aux mains sanguinaires des tyrans, et leur a permis de puiser des consolations et des forces dans la Parole de Dieu lue et prêchée dans leur langue : voilà les vrais titres de gloire de notre ville. » Quand Paul Hochfelder, le secrétaire de la ville, prononça ce discours le 14 juin 1577, il y avait déjà quatorze ans que l'Église française de Strasbourg avait été fermée sur ordre du Magistrat. La politique d'accueil sans restriction des réfugiés, dont Hochfelder faisait l'éloge pour obtenir la réouverture de l ...

Church history --- Reformation --- Rhineland (Germany) --- Church history.

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The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary views continue to coexist in a state of perpetual tension. The Taming of Evolution addresses the questions of how and why this is so. Davydd Greenwood offers a sustained critique of the nature/nurture debate, revealing the complexity of the relationship between science and ideology. He maintains that popular contemporary theories, most notably E.O. Wilson's human sociobiology and Marvin Harris's cultural materialism, represent pre-Darwinian notions overlaid by elaborate evolutionary terminology. Greenwood first details the humoral-environmental and Great Chain of Being theories that dominated Western thinking before Darwin. He systematically compares these ideas with those later influenced by Darwin's theories, illuminating the surprising continuities between them. Greenwood suggests that it would be neither difficult nor socially dangerous to develop a genuinely evolutionary understanding of human beings, so long as we realized that we could not derive political and moral standards from the study of biological processes.

Evolution (Biology) --- History. --- Philosophy.