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Sociability and its Discontents. Civil Society, Social Capital, and their Alternatives in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2010 | | Collana: | Early European Research |
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This volume advances our knowledge of continuing trends over the
longue durée of European history. It also exposes
many differences separating contemporaries from their medieval and
early modern ancestors. In putting the concept of social capital to
the test, the authors also expose the strengths, weaknesses, and
limits of the Putnam thesis. The essays address
fourteenth-century English fears of old-age neglect; childhood,
friendship, scandal, and rivalry in Renaissance Florence; rebellion
in an Italian village; social capital and seigneurial power in
southern and north-central Italy; guild violence in Calvinist
Ghent; civil society in early-modern Bologna, Naples and the Papal
State; gender in High Renaissance Rome; and critical analyses of
the transition from religious to secular sensibilities that
scholars (following Jürgen Habermas) have identified in
eighteenth-century Europe. In each case, the topic is considered in
relation to recent theories of social capital: the
informal, intangible bonds of trust upon which, social scientist
Robert Putnam argues, every human community depends. The result is
a series of highly original case-studies which reveal the workings
of late medieval and early modern European society from new and
often unexpected angles.
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