Between the Middle Ages and modernity; individual and community in the early modern world.9780742553101 Between the Middle Ages and modernity; individual and community in the early modern world. Ed. by Charles H. Parker and Jerry H. Bentley. Rowman & Littlefield 2007 321 pages $34.95 Paperback CB358 Throughout most of the 20th century, especially in American universities American University, at Washington, D.C.; United Methodist; founded by Bishop J. F. Hurst, chartered 1893, opened in 1914. It was at first a graduate school; an undergraduate college was opened in 1925. Programs provide for student research at many government institutions. , the Renaissance and Reformation Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme is a bilingual (English and French), multidisciplinary journal devoted to what is currently called the early modern world (see early modern period). have been seen as the replacement of the corporate life of the medieval world with the individualism individualism Political and social philosophy that emphasizes individual freedom. Modern individualism emerged in Britain with the ideas of Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, and the concept was described by Alexis de Tocqueville as fundamental to the American temper. of the modern world. Here historians, mostly from American universities, argue that individual identity in the early modern period drew from traditional forms of corporate association, so that the contrast between the two has been overdrawn o·ver·draw v. o·ver·drew , o·ver·drawn , o·ver·draw·ing, o·ver·draws v.tr. 1. To draw against (a bank account) in excess of credit. 2. . ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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