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Название: Social Thought in England, 1480-1730. From Body Social to Worldly Wealth
Автор: A.L. Beier
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2016
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 485
Размер: 11.1 Мб
Язык: английский
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.