.... Even if the pagan discourse of virtue had been adopted by Christianity in its earliest centuries, both medieval and early modern European thinkers continued to wrestle with the interface between divine formation and social formation and their implications for the character of human moral agency. ©...

... the ways in which social formations were reproduced, not only through the compensated labor of adult males, but also through the informal, unpaid work of women that made such “breadwinning” work possible. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 early modern England...

... as providing a fledgling science with social legitimation. Another connection between seventeenth-century science and religion is less well known, and that is the way in which the experimental practices of the new science were then thought to promote a particular kind of moral and religious formation...

...Jean Balsamo The editorial process of a book's production—far from a minor material detail in its formation or an anecdotal event of publishing history—constitutes a meaningful aspect of its elaboration as a literary work, as significant as the author's biography. Indeed, book history...

...Joshua Phillips The dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s and early 1540s had significant effects on Tudor England, transforming traditional understandings of work and religious devotion. This article examines three elements of social life, associated with monasticism, that were drastically...

..., the Lady’s Platonic vision of the virtues is central to the formation of her temperate judgment. However, by foregrounding Plato’s account of motivation, Milton bypasses the central role that habituation plays in Aristotle’s understanding of education in the virtues. Milton’s suppression of the importance...

... textual modes of translation connect with translation’s role in subject formation in medieval texts, focusing on two narratives about female cross-dressing, the Vie de Sainte Euphrosine and the Roman de Silence . Gender emerges in these texts through multiple intersecting modes of translation which...

...Thomas A. Hamill This essay examines the ways in which cockfighting in early modern England operates as an allegorical mode, as a trope for conscribing social relations and phenomena as distinct as male subject-formation and the realization of eschatological truth. Focusing on two distinct...

... Reynolds’s infl uential work exposing the fi ctional- ity of feudalism as an explanatory category for medieval social formation.12 If Marx’s ontology of premodernity left particular strands of preindustrial economies unaccounted for and unknowable, this should only encourage a more rigorous eff ort among...

... their costumes and customs; and costume shares the mutability to which all worldly things are and have been subject. (sig. B4r/52) For Vecellio, changes in dress are evidence of violent and unwelcome changes in social formations over time. In his opening Discorso, he writes: Human...

... Life.” This concentrates on the genesis and outcomes of capitalism and consum- erism. As the great history of R. H. Tawney (Religion and the Rise of Capi- talism) long ago showed, capitalist social formations demanded a model of virtues and vices inimical to traditional Christian ethics. Gregory...

... (XVIII  –  XXI). The gifts of Grace enable Christians to sustain a social formation in practices that have been displayed as sources of habitual sin but are now ordered to virtue and the way to God. The Holy Spirit is apparently able to transform these practices without a revolution that would...

..., since the eleventh century, the growth of towns and cities in Europe led to the formation of new and multiple centers of cultural forms and industrial practices and larger and more expansive social networks. Rural households were linked to urban markets, and more goods were owned by more people...

... cultures and communities are seen as bricoleurs have been described by theorists of postcolonial social formations like Paul Gilroy. Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic, which continues his project of dislodging the cultural nationalism of British cultural studies (a project begun in his There Ain’t No Black...

... themselves. 7 It has been the way of most historians who have studied Freemasonry to treat it as one of the many private, voluntary social formations that distinguishes the eighteenth century as a whole, and thus another set of novel conduits of communication. Moreover, she implies that the rituals bore...

... formalist critics, the political is not merely connected to literary form; form and politics are reciprocally constituting. 9 Perhaps most importantly, new formalism grounds its analysis in the materiality of its objects: texts and manuscripts, but also social formations, political structures...

..., to the envisioning of local, national, and transnational discursive communities, or to the negotiation of poetic filiations and social positions, lyric poetry has in recent years offered a favorable site for inquiry into community formation and its politics. Community formation has been described variously...

... different languages and traditions globally, to the envisioning of local, national, and transnational discursive communities, or to the negotiation of poetic filiations and social positions, lyric poetry has in recent years offered a favorable site for inquiry into community formation and its politics...

..., or to the negotiation of poetic filiations and social positions, lyric poetry has in recent years offered a favorable site for inquiry into community formation and its politics. Community formation has been described variously in different fields, as based on reciprocal identification among individuals as members...

... across class divisions.14 The popular- ity of small-­format cartography stems from its ability to appeal to all walks of life mingling in retail bookstalls.15 By the turn of the seventeenth century, consumers across the social spectrum tapped into a geographic imaginary to envision the nation...