Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Tony Claydon
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Revolution

The introduction surveys theories about a change in the perception of time over the early modern centuries. These could be summed up as a shift from older static to ‘modern’ models which were far more dynamic and developmental. It also surveys the case for interpreting the revolution of 1688–9 in England as a deliberate step into ‘modernity’. It then relates these two historiographic trends, asking if there is evidence that a new chronological awareness helped witnesses to 1688–9 conceive it as a turning point, and step into a new modern era. It advertises the argument of the book: that there is only partial evidence for the suggested chronological shift, and that we may therefore have to reconceive what was happening after 1688–9

Philosophic Pride

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Brooke
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

This is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of the Roman and Greek Stoics that they found in works by Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. The book examines key texts in their historical context, paying special attention to the history of classical scholarship and the historiography of philosophy. The book delves into the persisting tension between Stoicism and the tradition of Augustinian anti-Stoic criticism, which held Stoicism to be a philosophy for the proud who denied their fallen condition. Concentrating on arguments in moral psychology surrounding the foundations of human sociability and self-love, the book details how the engagement with Roman Stoicism shaped early modern political philosophy and offers significant new interpretations of Lipsius and Rousseau together with fresh perspectives on the political thought of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes. The book shows how the legacy of the Stoics played a vital role in European intellectual life in the early modern era.

scholarly journals Labour Conflicts and Working-Class Culture in Early Modern Holland

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolf Dekker
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
Informal Workers ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
Modern Era

SUMMARYFrom the 15th to the 18th century Holland, the most urbanized part of the northern Netherlands, had a tradition of labour action. In this article the informal workers' organizations which existed especially within the textile industry are described. In the 17th century the action forms adjusted themselves to the better coordinated activities of the authorities and employers. After about 1750 this protest tradition disappeared, along with the economic recession which especially struck the traditional industries. Because of this the continuity of the transition from the ancien régime to the modern era which may be discerned in the labour movements of countries like France and England, cannot be found in Holland.

A rubb-up for old soares; Jesuits, Jansenists, and the English Secular Clergy, 1705–1715

1977 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eamon Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Prison Sentence ◽  
Secular Clergy ◽  
Political Consolidation ◽  
Roman Catholics ◽  
The Revolution

The year 1688 was for England a religious as well as a political turning-point, and nowhere more so than among the English Roman Catholics. The post-Revolution Church was maintained and led by the same clergy who had flourished under James 11, but in very different circumstances. The hectic triumphalism of the years before 1688 gave way to a period of slow, cautious, and self-consciously a-political consolidation. The change can be seen in the careers of two men, Bonaventure Giffard and John Gother. Giffard had been provocatively consecrated bishop of Madura in the Banqueting Hall at Whitehall in 1688. In the same year he had gone to Oxford, to preside over twelve catholic dons at Magdalen College, intruded in the place of the evicted protestant Fellows. There he had confirmed and sung the mass, while protestant undergraduates stormed and howled outside the chapel windows. The Revolution brought a fourteen-month prison sentence in Newgate, from which he emerged, a chastened man, to oversee the formation and consolidation of congregations and clergy funds and organisations in the Midland District and, after 1702, to take charge of the London District with its mission to the London poor and unchurched.

All that glitters: Fool’s gold in the early-modern era

Endeavour ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 147-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Marie Roos
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

Introduction: Experimenting with Animals in the Early Modern Era

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Guerrini ◽  
Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era
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