Heilsame Wortgefechte: Reformen Europaischer Hospitaler Vom 14. Bis 16. Jahrhundert [German]

by Thomas Frank

English summary: What exactly are people doing when they combat about reforming complex social institutions? How do the advocates and the adversaries of such reforms construct their arguments? How do historical debates on reforms differ from modern ones? The book approaches these questions from the observatory of the late middle ages and the 16th century and is intended to be a contribution to a rhetoric of premodern reform thinking. The setting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: German
• ISBN: 3847103172
• ISBN13: 9783847103172
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Length: 402 Pages