Resisting the Devil's Instruments: Early Modern Resistance Theory for Late Modern Times

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. On the one hand, it offers a general analysis of stigmas (a person has one when, in virtue of its belonging to a certain group, such as that of women, homosexuals, etc., he or she is subjugated or persecuted). On the other hand, I argue that stigmas are “invented”. More precisely, I claim that they are not descriptive of real inequalities. Rather, they are socially created, or invented in a lax sense, in so far as the real differences to which they refer are socially valued or construed as negative, and used to justify social inequalities (that is, the placing of a person in the lower positions within an economic, cultural, etc., hierarchy), or persecutions. Finally, I argue that in some cases, such as that of the witch persecution of the early modern times, we find the extreme situation in which a stigma was invented in the strict sense of the word, that is, it does not have any empirical content.

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Shakespeare’s Dancing Bodies

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190498788.013.9 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 172-196

Author(s):

Brandon Shaw

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Modern Dance ◽

The Body ◽

Literary Texts ◽

Somatic Psychology ◽

Body Parts ◽

Social Significance ◽

Romeo And Juliet ◽

Modern Times ◽

Early Modern Times

Romeo’s well-known excuse that he cannot dance because he has soles of lead is demonstrative of the autonomous volitional quality Shakespeare ascribes to body parts, his utilization of humoral somatic psychology, and the horizontally divided body according to early modern dance practice and theory. This chapter considers the autonomy of and disagreement between the body parts and the unruliness of the humors within Shakespeare’s dramas, particularly Romeo and Juliet. An understanding of the body as a house of conflicting parts can be applied to the feet of the dancing body in early modern times, as is evinced not only by literary texts, but dance manuals as well. The visuality dominating the dance floor provided opportunity for social advancement as well as ridicule, as contemporary sources document. Dance practice is compared with early modern swordplay in their shared approaches to the training and social significance of bodily proportion and rhythm.

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Judaism and General Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Times

Cultures in Collision and Conversation ◽

10.1515/9781618117915-003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 21-116

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Modern Times ◽

Early Modern Times ◽

General Culture

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Neo-Despotism as Anti-Despotism

Theory Culture & Society ◽

10.1177/0263276420978289 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 026327642097828

Author(s):

Bülent Diken

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Arbitrary Rule ◽

The Law ◽

Late Modern ◽

Voluntary Servitude

I treat despotism as a virtual concept. Thus it is necessary to expose its actualizations even when it appears as its opposite, refusing to recognize itself as despotism. I define despotism initially as arbitrary rule, in terms of a monstrous transgression of the law. But since the monster is grounded in its very formlessness, it cannot be demonstrated. However, one can always try to de-monstrate it through disagreements. In doing this, I deal with despotism not as a solipsistic undertaking but as part of a constellation that always already contains two other elements: economy and voluntary servitude. I give three different – ancient, early modern and late modern – accounts of this nexus, demonstrating how despotism continuously takes on new appearances. I conclude, in a counter-classical prism, how the classical nexus has evolved in modernity while the focus gradually shifted towards another triangulation: neo-despotism, use and dissent.

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“Industrious Revolution” Revisited: A Variety of Diligence Derived from a Long-Term Local History of Kuta in Kyô-Otagi, a Former County in Japan

Histories ◽

10.3390/histories1030014 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 108-121

Author(s):

Satoshi Murayama ◽

Hiroko Nakamura

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Industrial Production ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Local History ◽

The Self ◽

Modern Times ◽

Original Theory ◽

Self Reliance ◽

History Of

Jan de Vries revised Akira Hayami’s original theory of the “Industrious Revolution” to make the idea more applicable to early modern commercialization in Europe, showcasing the development of the rural proletariat and especially the consumer revolution and women’s emancipation on the way toward an “Industrial Revolution.” However, Japanese villages followed a different path from the Western trajectory of the “Industrious Revolution,” which is recognized as the first step to industrialization. This article will explore how a different form of “industriousness” developed in Japan, covering medieval, early modern, and modern times. It will first describe why the communal village system was established in Japan and how this unique institution, the self-reliance system of a village, affected commercialization and industrialization and was sustained until modern times. Then, the local history of Kuta Village in Kyô-Otagi, a former county located close to Kyoto, is considered over the long term, from medieval through modern times. Kuta was not directly affected by the siting of new industrial production bases and the changes brought to villages located nearer to Kyoto. A variety of diligent interactions with living spaces is introduced to demonstrate that the industriousness of local women was characterized by conscience-driven perseverance.

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The Role of War in Modern Inflation

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050700096686 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 13-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Earl J. Hamilton

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Social Welfare ◽

Early Modern ◽

World War ◽

Price Inflation ◽

Modern Times ◽

Paper Currency ◽

Deficit Financing ◽

Early Modern Times

Wars in early modern times, although frequent, generated little price inflation because of their limited demands on real resources. The invention of paper currency and the resort to deficit financing to pay for wars changed that situation. In recent centuries wars have been the principal causes of inflation, although since World War II programs of social welfare unmatched by offsetting taxation have also fueled inflationary flames.

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