Arthur P. Monahan, From Personal Duties towards Personal Rights: Late Medieval and Early Modern Political Thought, 1300–1600, McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas 17, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. Pp. xxv + 445. $65.00 (ISBN 0-7735-1017-6).

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-357
Author(s):  
Kenneth Pennington
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Personal Rights ◽  
History Of ◽  
Queen's University

Idleness

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Kearney
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Human Labor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Christian Thought

This essay examines the role that the specter of idleness played in the ongoing transformation of labor in England during the late medieval and early modern periods. It begins by tracing an historical shift in Christian conceptions of labor through a knotty genealogy of ideas about labor and idleness that extends from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The essay then turns to an early sixteenth-century text that is not often considered in either medieval or early modern histories of Christian thought about labor: Thomas More’sUtopia(1516). The essay contends thatUtopiais fundamentally shaped by More’s meditation on labor and idleness and that that meditation opens the utopian text out toward a vexed history of ideas concerning human work that extends forward from the fourteenth century. With its idiosyncratic but historically resonant meditation on human labor, More’sUtopiarepresents a particularly useful vantage point from which to address the ongoing transformation of Christian conceptions of work in late medieval and early modern England.

Introduction: when ideas travel: political theory, colonialism, and the history of ideas

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burke A. Hendrix ◽  
Deborah Baumgold
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Of Political Thought ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
History Of

Ideas travel. The history of political thought as it has generally been studied is deeply interested in these forms of travel and in the transformations that occur along the way. Ideas of a social contract first crystallize in the England of Hobbes and Locke, and then travel in branching ways to Jefferson’s North America, Robespierre’s France, Kant’s Prussia, and elsewhere. In their travels, these ideas hybridize with others, are repurposed in new social contexts, and often take on political meanings deeply divergent from what their originators intended. Students of the history of political thought are acutely aware of these complexities in the development of European political ideas during the early modern and modern eras, given the centrality of such ideas for shaping the political worlds in which we now live....

scholarly journals Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Reference Book ◽  
History Of Political Thought ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Languages ◽  
Cambridge School

In The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Quentin Skinner has three aims: creating a sort of reference book for hundreds of primary texts in multiple languages, illuminating a more general historical theme using late medieval and early modern political texts, and giving us a history of political thought with a genuinely historical character. Skinner allows us to see political theorists creatively wrestling with difficult political problems of their day, and attempting to solve them through their writing. Skinner’s critics, however, cannot shake the sense that placing these texts in historical contexts robs them of some of their profundity and value as works of political theory. This chapter examines some of Skinner’s treatments of particular authors, notes some difficulties with the book’s methods, and situates the debate around Foundations within the emergence of a self-conscious Cambridge School.

scholarly journals From Personal Duties Towards Personal Rights: Late Medieval and Early Modern Political Thought, 1300-1600

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-89
Author(s):  
Arthur P. Monahan (book author) ◽  
Janice Liedl (review author)
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Personal Rights
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