Institutional culture in early modern society / edited by Anne Goldgar and Robert I. Frost.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldgar, Anne.

Frost, Robert I.

Series:

Cultures, beliefs, and traditions ; v. 20.

Cultures, beliefs, and traditions, 1382-5364 ; v. 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social institutions--History.

Social institutions.

Social institutions--Europe--History.

Civilization, Medieval.

Europe--Social life and customs.

Europe.

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe--History--1492-.

Physical Description:

xxii, 370 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers new insights into the self-perceptions, strategies, and rituals through which early modern institutions functioned. Its wide range and its comparative vision of the nature of institutions prompts a new interpretation of the role of institutions in society. With contributions by Florence Hsia, Ian Anders Gadd, Gayle K. Brunelle, Christopher Carlsmith, Susan E. Brown, Victor Morgan, Steve Hindle, Janelle Day Jenstad, Eve Rosenhaft, Reed Benhamou, James Shaw, Kristine Haugen.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

SECTION ONE: COMMUNAL DEFINITION

Mathematical Martyrs, Mandarin Missionaries, and Apostolic Academicians: Telling Institutional Lives

Were Books Different? The Stationers' Company in Civil War London, 1640&amp

#8211

1645

SECTION TWO: COOPERATION AND RIVALRY AMONG INSTITUTIONS

To Beggar thy Neighbour or Not? Mediation versus Vendetta in Commercial Disputes in Early Modern Rouen

Cooperation and Conflict in the Schools of Bergamo, 1550&amp

1650

Policing and Privilege: the Resistance to Penal Reform in Eighteenth-Century London

SECTION THREE: RITES OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION

A Ceremonious Society: an Aspect of Institutional Power in Early Modern Norwich

Good, Godly and Charitable Uses": Endowed Charity and the Relief of Poverty in Rural England, c. 1550&amp

1750

SECTION FOUR: EXTERNAL PROPAGANDA

Public Glory, Private Gilt: the Goldsmiths' Company and the Spectacle of Punishment

Secrecy and Publicity in the Emergence of Modern Business Culture: Pension Funds in Hamburg 1760&amp

1780

SECTION FIVE: DISCIPLINE

Discipline and Punishment in the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture

SECTION SIX: SUBVERSION OF COMMUNAL PROCEDURES

Justice in the Marketplace: Corruption at the Giustizia Vecchia in Early Modern Venice

Imagined Universities: Public Insult and the Terrae Filius in Early Modern Oxford

AFTERWORDS

Anthony Grafton

Joanna Innes

Keith Wrightson

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-91522-6

9786610915224

90-474-0544-7

1-4294-0811-1

OCLC:

191935469