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1 online resource (318 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; PREFACE TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION; INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION; PART I FROM 1050 TO THE REFORMATION; 1 THE GUILD: HISTORY; Role of guilds in Europe -- general guilds; craft-guilds; modern assessments; 2 THE GUILD: ETHOS AND DOCTRINE; Craft-guild ethos: solidarity, honour of craft, justice -- juristic opinion; corporate legitimacy: Germanic and Roman views; legitimation 'by the law'; Innocent IV on legitimation by group will; procedural values; legislative competence; Gierke's and Durkheim's views considered |
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Possible reasons why theorists largely ignored guilds3 CIVIL SOCIETY; Definition -- economic development; freedom of person; security of ownership; privacy, commerce, contract; civil society and towns; legal equality; Cicero and St Paul; liberty as a European value; 4 THE ETHOS OF THE EARLY TOWNS (COMMUNES) UP TO 1250; The medieval communes -- range of governmental activity; constitutions: assembly, ruler and 'judges'; councils; perceptions of the urban community: universitas; procedural values: counsel, consent, election; question of origins: (i) Roman; (ii) Germanic |
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Town and guild: oath, friendshipthe politicization of the guild; (iii) Christianity; mixture of these three; Investiture Controversy as sparking-plug: secularization; 5 GUILD POLITIES AND URBAN IDEOLOGY, 1250-1550; The political rise of the crafts -- new and varied civic regimes; urban values in later Middle Ages: community, 'rich and poor', friendship; peace and common good; conceptualization of the political role of guilds; lack of corporatist ideology; liberty and equality; 6 GUILD AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY |
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The idea of civitas: Thomas Aquinas -- values of friendship and mutual aid: division of labourvalues of civil society: personal liberty, rule of law; law, not groups, as focus of moral values; philosophers and jurists on guild rule and popular government: (i) democratia; Albert on political equality; Bartolus; (ii) government by the community; participatory consent; the small group as model: Salamonio on contractual societas; 7 MARSIGLIO OF PADUA: A PHILOSOPHY OF THE CORPORATE STATE; Marsiglio's uniqueness -- purpose of his work; civitas and civil life; functional 'parts' of the city |
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Natural division of labourstate as corporation; communal sovereignty; ideology of commune as philosophical truth; old and new classes in sovereign legislature; interweaving of guild and civil society: mutual aid and exchange; lack of influence on urban politics; 8 THE ITALIAN HUMANISTS: CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE REPUBLIC; The humanists as innovators -- little on guilds: Patrizi on friendship; values of civil society: liberty and equality; Bruni on civic values and popular government; equality of opportunity; Machiavelli oil equality; civil society separable from city-state |
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Machiavelli on participation and virtu vis-à-vis communal tradition |
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Print version record |
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Political science -- Europe -- History
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Political science
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Black, Antony
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| ISBN |
9781351516549 |
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135151654X |
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