Rethinking the Work Ethic in Premodern Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

The book moves away from the idea of a singular Weberian work ethic as fundamental to modern notions of work and instead emphasises how different languages of work were harnessed for a variety of social, intellectual, religious, economic, political, and ideological objectives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-15
Mått:148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt:563 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031380914

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Gábor Almási is Senior Researcher of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo Latin Studies, Innsbruck, Austria.Giorgio Lizzul is Post-doctoral Junior Fellow at the Fondazione 1563, Turin, and Visiting Scholar at the Università di Torino, Italy.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction: Rethinking Work Ethics.- Chapter 2: The Work Ethic in Renaissance Florence: a Study of its Origins.- Chapter 3: Preaching about Manual/Artisanal Labour: A New Focus and Ambivalent Messages (1200–1500).- Chapter 4: Industry, Utility, and the Distribution of Wealth in Quattrocento Humanist Thought.- Chapter 5: Work, Morality and Discipline in Sixteenth-century Geneva.- Chapter 6: Critical Responses to the Humanist Work Ethic: The Image of the Pedant.- Chapter 7: Scholars Working Themselves to Death: Casaubon and Baronio Compared.- Chapter 8: Work and Idleness in Adam Contzen’s Political Oeuvre.- Chapter 9: The Counter-Reformation Concept of Good Labour and the Inculcation of a Catholic Work Ethic.- Chapter 10: Labour as a Form of Charity and Almsgiving in Early Modern Poor Relief.- Chapter 11: Enlightened Women at Work: The Case of Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier (1770s–1790s).- Chapter 12: Labor ipse voluptas: Virtues of Work in Nineteenth-Century Germany.