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Sociability and its discontents : civil society, social capital, and their alternatives in late medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Nicholas A. Eckstein and Nicholas Terpstra.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Eckstein, Nicholas A.
Terpstra, Nicholas
Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
Series:
Early European research ; v. 1.
Early European research
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Social capital (Sociology)--Europe--History--15th century.
Social capital (Sociology).
Social capital (Sociology)--Europe--History--16th century.
Social capital (Sociology)--Europe--History--17th century.
Civil society--Europe--History--15th century.
Civil society.
Civil society--Europe--History--16th century.
Civil society--Europe--History--17th century.
Social conditions.
History.
Europe--Social conditions--15th century.
Europe.
Europe--Social conditions--16th century.
Europe--Social conditions--17th century.
Social history.
Italy.
Civil society / Europe / History / 16th century.
Civil society / Europe / History / 17th century.
Civil society / Italy / History / 16th century.
Civil society / Italy / History / 17th century.
Social capital (Sociology) / Europe / History / 16th century.
Social capital (Sociology) / Europe / History / 17th century.
Social capital (Sociology) / Italy / History / 16th century.
Social capital (Sociology) / Italy / History / 17th century.
Europe / Social conditions / 16th century.
Europe / Social conditions / 17th century.
Local Subjects:
Civil society / Europe / History / 16th century.
Civil society / Europe / History / 17th century.
Civil society / Italy / History / 16th century.
Civil society / Italy / History / 17th century.
Social capital (Sociology) / Europe / History / 16th century.
Social capital (Sociology) / Europe / History / 17th century.
Social capital (Sociology) / Italy / History / 16th century.
Social capital (Sociology) / Italy / History / 17th century.
Europe / Social conditions / 16th century.
Europe / Social conditions / 17th century.
Genre:
History.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Physical Description:
326 pages ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Turnhout : Brepols, [2009]
Contents:
Sociability and its discontents / Nicholas Terpstra and Nicholas A. Eckstein
I. Negotiating civil and social disorder
Communal thought, communal words, and communal rites in a sixteenth-century village rebellion / Thomas Cohen
Social and legal capital in Vendetta: a fifteenth century Florentine feud in and out of court / Thomas Kuehn
Jousting alone: scandal as social capital in renaissance Florence / Nerida Newbigin
Speaking for the aged: Thomas Hoccleve and The regiment of princes / Anne M. Scott
II. Networks in operation
Pittori, amici e vicini: the formal and informal bonds of community amongst Florentine artists / Nicholas A. Eckstein
Paolo Uccello and the confraternity of Saint Peter Martyr: themes of reciprocal obligation in life and art / Hugh Hudson
To trust is good, but not to trust is better: an aristocratic woman in search of social capital in seventeenth-century Rome / Caroline Castiglione
III. Unexpected civility
Signorial power in Aragonese southern Italy / David Abulafia
Solidarity in Spanish Naples: Fede pubblica and Fede privata revisited / John A. Marino
In praise of refeudalization: princes and feudataries in north-central Italy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / Gregory Hanlon
The Putnam Thesis and problems of the early modern transition period / Christopher F. Black
IV. Adaptations and reconsiderations
Voluntary associations reconsidered: compagnie and arti in Florentine politics / Mark Jurdjevic
A breakdown of civic community? civic traditions, voluntary associations and the Ghent Calvinist regime (1577-84) / Anne-Laure van Bruaene
'Republics by contract': civil society in the papal state / Nicholas Terpstra
From religious to secular sociability: confraternities and freemasonry in eighteenth-century Paris / David Garrioch.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
ISBN:
9782503524733
2503524737
OCLC:
310395258
Publisher Number:
99946494183

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