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This book examines the social history of Florence during the critical period of its growth and development in the early modern period from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries.Treating the city, its art, and its rituals as lived ex-
3 lis 2014 · Early modern conceptions of social order developed from a rich tradition of classical philosophy and medieval Christian thinking. This chapter begins with an overview of the core concepts of social order. Particularly prominent was the model of a tripartite society, divided into three orders or estates—the nobility, the clergy, and the ...
26 sie 2022 · The Renaissance was the “rebirth” of culture, art, and learning that took place in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, starting in Italy and spreading to various other parts of western Europe.
26 sie 2011 · The study of social structure—meaning the relationships between different social groups and the significance of those relationships and groups in historical processes and change—has deep roots in modern historiography, beginning with 17th-century demographers and political economists.
24 paź 2017 · ABSTRACT. This classic work marks the culmination of a definite stage in the socio-economic historiography from the late Middle Ages to the rise of the haute bourgeoisie in the early Renaissance. Here Alfred von Martin attempts to discover and define the spirit or essence of the Renaissance, and with it the spirit of early capitalism as it ...
Social status was the basis of life in Europe during the Renaissance and Reformation. Since the early Middle Ages, people had been divided into three groups, called estates. Each of the Three Estates were further subdivided into many other levels.
The scale of political organization contributed to the formation of civil society. When scholars of the modern period refer to civil society, they usually have in mind the civil society of a national state. Renaissance Europe, of course, was divided into a much larger number of smaller states.
