ISBN:
9781317352310
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (485 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Beier, A.L Social Thought in England, 1480-1730 : From Body Social to Worldly Wealth
DDC:
942.05
Keywords:
Social problems - Great Britain - History
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I The Body Social, 1480-1550 -- 1 The Body Imagined -- 2 Contexts and Conflicts -- 3 The Body Examined: Ancient, Medieval, Modern -- 4 Different Metaphor, Similar Message: Edmund Dudley's "Tree of Commonwealth," 1509-1510 -- 5 The Body Historicized: Clement Armstrong, 1529-1536 -- 6 Defending the Body: "Commonwealth-Men," c. 1520-c. 1553 -- Part II Social Humanist Challenges to the Body Social, 1516-1549 -- 7 Moving Away From the Body: An Overview -- 8 Poverty, Wealth, and Labor: New Theory, New Practices -- 9 A Radical Reordering: Thomas More's Utopia (1516) -- 10 Social Humanist Thought Redefines the Social, c. 1523/5-1536 -- 11 Rethinking the Three Estates: Thomas Starkey's "Dialogue Between Lupset and Pole," 1529-1532 -- 12 Virtue Meets Profit: The Brave New World of Sir Thomas Smith, 1549 -- Part III Society as Property, 1550-1697 -- 13 Redrawing the Social Picture, 1550-1600 -- 14 Property, Patriarchy, and the Agrarian Problem, 1593-1656 -- 15 The Power of Property Perceived, 1576-1730 -- 16 Property Assailed and Defended: Grandees, Levellers, and Diggers, 1647-1649 -- 17 Conclusions: The Past Makes the Future -- Bibliography -- Index.
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