Rethinking the Work Ethic in Premodern Europe

• Autore: Almási Gábor
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.3613
• Altri autori: LizzulGiorgio
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Rethinking Work Ethics -- Weber and the Work Ethic -- The Problem of Sources -- The Meaning of Work -- Interpreting Discourses of Work -- Religion and Work Ethics -- Ideology -- Social Legitimation and Critique -- Political Economy -- Discipline -- 2 The Work Ethic in Renaissance Florence: A Study of Its Origins -- From Ambivalence to Accommodation -- The Work Ethic in Fourteenth-Century Florence: The Silence of the Sources -- The Work Ethic of Fifteenth-Century Merchant Humanists -- Conclusions -- 3 Preaching About Manual/Artisanal Labour: A New Focus and Ambivalent Messages (1200-1500) -- A New Focus on Work -- A Proprium for Every Human Being -- The Redemptive Value of Work -- The Perils of Manual Labour -- An Ambivalent Message: The Role of Intention -- 4 Industry, Utility, and the Distribution of Wealth in Quattrocento Humanist Thought -- The Industrious City -- Profit and the Common Good -- Wealth and Virtue -- Matteo Palmieri and the vita civile -- Education, industria, and Virtue -- Utilità and Property -- Civil Justice and Fiscality -- Conclusion -- 5 Work, Morality, and Discipline in Sixteenth-Century Geneva -- Calvin and Work -- The Work of Moral Discipline -- Efforts to Reform Clothing and Appearance -- Conclusion -- 6 Critical Responses to the Humanist Work Ethic: The Image of the Pedant -- Style Over Substance: Erasmus Against Purism -- Quantity Over Quality: Montaigne Against Useless Knowledge -- Criticism from Outside: The Caricature of the Pedant -- Deflating Pretensions -- Exposing Vanity -- Conclusion -- 7 Scholars Working Themselves to Death: Casaubon and Baronio Compared -- Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) -- Cesare Baronio (1538-1607) -- Concluding Observations -- 8 Work and Idleness in Adam Contzen's Political Oeuvre. ; Otium in the courtier's Mirror Daniel -- Promoting Work from the Perspective of Economic Policy in the Politica -- The Industriousness and Diligence of the Prince -- Conclusion -- 9 The Counter-Reformation Concept of Good Labour and the Inculcation of a Catholic Work Ethic -- Petrus Loycx: A Hard-Working Priest's Views on Good and Bad Work -- A Static "Sociology" of Labour -- The Jesuits: Towards a More Radical Work Ethic -- Conclusion -- 10 Labour as a Form of Charity and Almsgiving in Early Modern Poor Relief -- Putting the Poor to Work: Ancient Sources and New Meanings -- "A Charitable Medicine:" Employing the Poor in Muratori's Della Carità Cristiana -- "Almost for Charity:" The Roman Ospizio Apostolico and Its Opponents -- Conclusion -- 11 Enlightened Women at Work: The Case of Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier (1770s-1790s) -- Working and Playing -- Amusing Chemistry -- A Pleasant Revolution? -- Conclusions -- 12 Labor Ipse Voluptas: Virtues of Work in Nineteenth-Century Germany -- Human Interest Stories -- Time-Honored Repertoires -- Nostalgia-Or Not? -- A Man of Genius -- A Religion of Work -- Conclusion -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking the Work Ethic in Premodern Europe
• ISBN: 3-031-38092-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910763590303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II