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Social Thought in England, 1480-1730 - From Body Social to Worldly Wealth (Hardcover)
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Social Thought in England, 1480-1730 - From Body Social to Worldly Wealth (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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Authorities ranging from philosophers to politicians nowadays
question the existence of concepts of society, whether in the
present or the past. This book argues that social concepts most
definitely existed in late medieval and early modern England,
laying the foundations for modern models of society. The book
analyzes social paradigms and how they changed in the period. A
pervasive medieval model was the "body social," which imagined a
society of three estates - the clergy, the nobility, and the
commonalty - conjoined by interdependent functions, arranged in
static hierarchies based upon birth, and rejecting wealth and
championing poverty. Another model the book describes as "social
humanist," that fundamentally questioned the body social, advancing
merit over birth, mobility over stasis, and wealth over poverty.
The theory of the body social was vigorously articulated between
the 1480s and the 1550s. Parts of the old metaphor actually
survived beyond 1550, but alternative models of social humanist
thought challenged the body concept in the period, advancing a
novel paradigm of merit, mobility, and wealth. The book's
methodology focuses on the intellectual context of a variety of
contemporary texts.
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