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In Praise of Ordinary People - Early Modern Britain and the Dutch Republic (Hardcover, New)
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In Praise of Ordinary People - Early Modern Britain and the Dutch Republic (Hardcover, New)
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The discipline of social history has for many decades focused on
the lives of so-called "ordinary" people. Less studied, however,
has been the ways in which the perceptions and roles of these
individuals changed over time - both in historical theory and
practice. In particular, in Europe beginning in the sixteenth
century, they were no longer simply ignored, feared, or denigrated
by elites: they came to be seen, however cautiously, as having
value through their skills and crafts, or in their ability to
reason, or even in their contributions to anchoring the stability
of the state. It is not accidental that these sorts of practices on
the part of ordinary people became valorized more visibly in the
English and Dutch contexts. After 1550 the Dutch Revolt cast
ordinary people, particularly in urban settings, as participants on
either the Catholic Spanish side or among the Dutch rebels and
their reformed churches. Meanwhile, the English civil wars of the
1640s did something similar, and also produced a body of
theoretical literature on the capacities of ordinary men and even
women that became central to Western democratic thinking. In the
fascinating array of studies gathered here, we see how the study of
these participants' social identities imparts historical texture
and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity.
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