By David Nicolle, Angus McBride
The excessive aspect of medieval Islamic growth was once the 700-year presence of the 'Moors' in Spain and Portugal. The Arab and Berber conquest used to be by means of the institution of a richly exact tradition in Andalusia, the place for it slow Muslim and Christian co-operated as frequently as they fought. the increase and fall of successive Islamic dynasties introduced new invaders, fragmentation and disunity; and the becoming Christian kingdoms to the north finally doomed the amirate of Granada, the final Moorish bastion, which fell to the Castilians in 1492. the vibrant armies of Western Islam are defined and illustrated right here in attention-grabbing element.
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Robson (1961); Kenny (1985); McFarlane (1952); Kaminsky (1963); list of Wyclif ’s works in Thomson (1983). Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 16 jean-philippe genet rejection of all things subversive after the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 meant that Wyclif ’s doctrine of the eucharist, condemned by the Church, alarmed an aristocracy fearful of heresy. 49 These ideas were to live on in Bohemia, where antagonism between clerics and German and Czech members of the University of Prague had created an explosive situation.
The author of the Somnium Viridarii (or Songe du Verger), written about 33 34 38 39 Walther (1976); A. Black, below, ch. 3; on the tracts De potestate papae, see Miethke (1982) and (1991a). 35 36 37 Belch (1965). Leff (1976); Ozment (1980). Leff (1968), p. 229. Stürner (1987). Lagarde (1956–70), v, pp. 281–9; McGrade (1974), pp. 37ff; see also Miethke (1969). Quillet (1970). Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Politics: theory and practice 13 1374 at the behest of King Charles V, borrowed extensively from Marsilius, as did the eminent conciliar authors, Dietrich of Niem and the Franciscan Mathias Döring.
Leff (1968), p. 229. Stürner (1987). Lagarde (1956–70), v, pp. 281–9; McGrade (1974), pp. 37ff; see also Miethke (1969). Quillet (1970). Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Politics: theory and practice 13 1374 at the behest of King Charles V, borrowed extensively from Marsilius, as did the eminent conciliar authors, Dietrich of Niem and the Franciscan Mathias Döring. The theories of Marsilius and Ockham rejecting papal sovereignty and supremacy, and leading, even in their most temperate form, to the conciliarist theses of moderate nominalists such as Pierre d’Ailly and Gerson, were unacceptable to the Papacy.