Graus Social Utopias In The MA
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Social Utopias in the Middle Ages
Author(s): F. Graus
Source: Past & Present, No. 38 (Dec., 1967), pp. 3-19
Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society
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SOCIAL UTOPIAS IN THE MIDDLE
AGES*
THE SOCIAL TEACHINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES HAVE OFTEN AROUSED
ofhistorians theinterest and severalworkshavebeendevotedto them.
Recentlyhowever,interestin thisthemeseemsto have been fading, and medievalistspreferto examinethe social situationof medieval man or thetheoriesofthe stateput forwardby medievalwritersand thinkers. This has not come about by accident and is largely determined by thefactthatearlierresearchwas oftenlimitedto the observation thatsocialtheoriesand utopianvisionsin thepast simple an observationwhichseems had also been "socially" determined, almostbanal to us today. It seemedthatone could go no further, and workon suchgeneraltruthsseemedhardlyworththeeffort.
But morerecentlyseveralwaysof approachinga solutionseem to havebeenemerging. Take forexampletheresearchintothetopicof medievalsources,the attempton the part of Frenchhistoriansto
Social Utopias in the Middle Ages
Author(s): F. Graus
Source: Past & Present, No. 38 (Dec., 1967), pp. 3-19
Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/649746 .
Accessed: 18/06/2014 09:35
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SOCIAL UTOPIAS IN THE MIDDLE
AGES*
THE SOCIAL TEACHINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES HAVE OFTEN AROUSED
ofhistorians theinterest and severalworkshavebeendevotedto them.
Recentlyhowever,interestin thisthemeseemsto have been fading, and medievalistspreferto examinethe social situationof medieval man or thetheoriesofthe stateput forwardby medievalwritersand thinkers. This has not come about by accident and is largely determined by thefactthatearlierresearchwas oftenlimitedto the observation thatsocialtheoriesand utopianvisionsin thepast simple an observationwhichseems had also been "socially" determined, almostbanal to us today. It seemedthatone could go no further, and workon suchgeneraltruthsseemedhardlyworththeeffort.
But morerecentlyseveralwaysof approachinga solutionseem to havebeenemerging. Take forexampletheresearchintothetopicof medievalsources,the attempton the part of Frenchhistoriansto