Becker's richly allusive essay in social and cultural history traces the emergence of a new civil society in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy and its later exportation to England. This new society was characterized by measure and control, by a separation of private from public concerns, by self-cultivation and self-conscious role playing, ...
In this sequel to "Civility and Society in Western Europe, 1300-1600", Marvin Becker continues his study of the interior life of Western culture. Here, Becker treats the rise of civil society in England and Scotland that manifested itself in a shift in the spaces and practices of human sociability from familiarity toward impersonality, from public ...
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