True Warriors? Negotiating Dissent in the Intellectual Debate C. 1100-1700 (Lectio, 15) (English, French and Italian Edition)

Dissent, polemics and rivalry have always been at the centre of intellectual development. The scholarly Streitkultur was given a fresh impetus by the newly founded universities in the High Middle Ages and later turned into a quintessential part of early modern intellectual life, with the emergence of the Protestant Reformation creating a new momentum. It was not only mirrored in various well-known intellectual disputations and controversies, but also embodied in numerous literary genres and non-literary modes of expression, as well as discursive or political strategies. Moreover, the harsh debates notwithstanding, consensus was also actively searched for, both within particular disciplines and within society as a whole. This volume collects thirteen contributions offering a very rich variety of topics with regard to the negotiation of disagreements from the twelfth till the eighteenth centuries. They reflect inter alia upon the rules and conventions of the intellectual debate, upon the media used to negotiate dissent, as well as upon the role of formal institutions created to judge and decide in cases of dissent. The contributions are offered by scholars from fields as diverse as history of literature, political history, history of philosophy, history of Church and theology, and legal history. FRONT MATTER WOUTER DRUWÉ – WIM FRANÇOIS. INTRODUCTION ANITA TRANINGER. JOUSTING SCHOOLMEN: MANAGING DISSENT IN SCHOLASTIC CULTURE DINAH WOUTERS. PREPOSTEROUS DEBATES: PARODIES OF DEBATE IN LATIN LITERATURE BEFORE 1200 SIRIA DE FRANCESCO. SULLE TRACCE DELLA QUERELLE DU ROMAN DE LA ROSE JACOB LANGELOH. A FAIR FIGHT OR A RIGGED JURY? THE COUNCIL OF BASEL (1431–1449) AND THE STRUCTURE OF ITS DEBATE ABOUT THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION YELENA MAZOUR-MATUSEVICH. AN INTELLECTUAL WARRIOR AND HIS HERO: JOHANNES WESSEL GANSFORT(1420–1489) AND JEAN GERSON (1363–1429) MARTA CELATI. CONDEMNING POLITICAL DISSENT AND ANTI-PRINCELY VIEWS IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY MILANESE LITERATURE ANTONIO GERACE. THOMAS STAPLETON ED ELISABETTA I: UNA RELAZIONE IMPOSSIBILE GIOVANNI MINNUCCI. SILEANT THEOLOGI: NEC ALIENAM TEMNANT TEMERE DISCIPLINAM LEEN SPRUIT. STRATEGIES AND AGENCY IN THE CENSORSHIP OF MODERN SCIENCE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY:SOME CASE STUDIES MATHILDE ALBISSON. L’INQUISITION ESPAGNOLE, ARBITRE DES CONTROVERSES ENTRE LES ORDRES RELIGIEUX (XVIIe SIÈCLE) MAGDALENA RYSZKA-KURCZAB. VERNACULAR RELIGIOUS DISPUTES IN THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH DURING THE LATER SIXTEENTH AND EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES ELENA DAHLBERG. LATIN VERSUS THE VERNACULAR IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY UPPSALA LAURA BECK VARELA. HISTORIA LITTERARIA IURIS. MAPPING CONTROVERSIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY JURISPRUDENCE BACK MATTER