Public Discourse, Corporate Citizenship, and State Formation in Early Modern England

Withington, Phil

doi:10.1086/ahr.112.4.1016

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“…62 English historians have already shown that citizens used 'disobedient speech' as a nonviolent weapon to defend the fundamental rights of citizenship, such as personal freedoms and property rights. 63 We argue that citizens not only guarded the correct maintenance of these rights by using their right to speak but that they also constantly uttered their beliefs on how a city should be governed. Principles such as fair justice, transparency in decision-making, and rights of political participation seem to have inspired Van Steynmolen and her fellow citizens to raise their voices.…”

Section: C O N T E N T I O U S T H O U G H Tmentioning

confidence: 90%

Women and contentious speech in fifteenth-century Brabant

Haemers

Delameillieure

2017

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This article revalorises women's protest and popular political ideas in history. A case study focusing on three cities of the Low Countries shows that not only men, but also women were involved when it came to spreading subversive ideas, undermining the authority of urban governors, and mobilising discontent. The analysis of fifteenth-century records of repression from Antwerp, Mechelen and Leuven demonstrates that both male and female commoners permanently strove to change the governmental practices in town by using contentious speech.

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Section: C O N T E N T I O U S T H O U G H Tmentioning

confidence: 90%

Women and contentious speech in fifteenth-century Brabant

Haemers

Delameillieure

2017

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“…However, its revival in early modern England reflected a much more dynamic public culture contested by royal, aristocratic, religious, and commercial actors, among others (Withington, 2007). This social structural context had the effect of shifting early modern orientations to reason and freedom from state-centric aristocratic virtues like courage and honour in the direction of more civic virtues like mundane sensibility, tact, and diplomacy (Knott, 2009;Wood, 1998: x).…”

Section: The Early Modern Civic Republican Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Freedom and addiction in four discursive registers: A comparative historical study of values in addiction science

Weinberg

2020

History of the Human Sciences

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Mainstream addiction science is today widely marked by an antinomy between a neurologically determinist understanding of the human brain ‘hijacked’ by the biochemical allure of intoxicants and a liberal voluntarist conception of drug use as a free exercise of choice. Prominent defenders of both discourses strive, ultimately without complete success, to provide accounts that are both universal and value-neutral. This has resulted in a variety of conceptual problems and has undermined the utility of such research for those who seek to therapeutically care for people presumed to suffer from addictions. This article contrasts these two contemporary discourses to two others that played vital historical roles in initiating both scientific and popular concern for addiction. These are the Puritan and civic republican discourses that dominated scholarly discussions of addiction in the early modern era. In each case, the place of values in these discussions is highlighted. By comparing them to their early modern historical antecedents, this article seeks to reflexively explore and develop more intellectually sound and therapeutically relevant alternatives to the troubled attempts at universality and value-neutrality now fettering debates in mainstream addiction science.

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“…Philip Withington, has stressed the internal civic traditions within the corporation and has viewed these traditions as formative of national state political repertoires. 81 Withington regarded the corporation's civic culture as the provider of the 'social depths' of state authority. But historians of early modern Europe have not, on the whole, projected this understanding of the distinctively inclusive sociology of the corporation onto the global field of view of the trading corporation.…”

Section: The Distinctive Global Sociology Of the Corporationmentioning

confidence: 99%