Social Struggles in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)

Max Beer

Part I: The Social Thought of the Middle Ages 1. The Essence and Sources of Medieval Communism 2 Gnosticism and Mysticism 3. Neo-Platonism: Plotinus 4. Natural Law in the Middle Ages 5. Roman and Christian Natural Law Part II: Migration of Nations and Reorganisation 6. The Teutonic Races 7. The Church 8. The Cloistral-Communistic Settlements Part III: From Communism to Private Property 9. The Economic Conditions of Western and Central Europe 10. Joachim of Floris; Amalric of Bena 11. S. Francis of Assisi; Duns Scotus; Marsilius of Padua; William of Ockham 12. S. Dominic de Guzman; S. Thomas Aquinas Part IV: The Essence of the Heretical-Social Movement 13. Spirtual Tendencies 14. The Cathari 15. The Cathari and Communism 16. The Inquisition Part V: The Spread and Persecution of the Cathari 17. Bulgaria and Bogomili 18. Italy: The Struggle Between the Pope and the Emperor; Arnoldists, Humiliati, Apostolic Brethren 19. France: Waldenses, Languedoc, Albigenses 20. Flanders: Beguins and Beghards, Lollards 21. Germany: Waldenses, Bguins and Beghards, Ortliebians, Brethren of the Free Spirit, the German Mystics, the Brethren of the Common Lot