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La vertu de tempérance entre Moyen Âge et âge classique
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ISBN: 9782406096641 9782406096658 2406096653 2406096645 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris: Classiques Garnier,

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La Tempérance, une des quatre vertus premières des Stoïciens devenues ensuite les vertus cardinales, est étudiée ici dans les divers sens qu'elle prend de la fin du Moyen Âge au début de l'âge classique. Le volume, qui comprend une abondante anthologie, suit le modèle de celui qui a porté sur la vertu de Prudence


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Humanisme et juste milieu au siècle de Rabelais : essai de critique illusoire
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ISBN: 9782251346038 2251346031 Year: 2009 Volume: 10 Publisher: Paris: Les Belles Lettres,

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Etude dans l'éthique de la Renaissance de la définition aristotélicienne de la vertu comme juste milieu. Analyse la place de cette conception dans l'art moral mais aussi la médecine, le droit et la pédagogie, de 1494 à 1552, dans l'oeuvre de Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples, de Josse Clichtove, Laurent Valla, d'Erasme, de Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais et de leurs contemporains.


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The rule of moderation : violence, religion, and the politics of restraint in early modern England
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ISBN: 9780521119726 9780521135566 9781139003711 9781139137553 1139137557 1139003712 9781139144889 113914488X 1139141562 9781139141567 0521135567 0521119723 1107213150 1139139878 1283315122 9786613315120 113913910X 113914068X Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Why was it that whenever the Tudor-Stuart regime most loudly trumpeted its moderation, that regime was at its most vicious? This groundbreaking book argues that the ideal of moderation, so central to English history and identity, functioned as a tool of social, religious and political power. Thus The Rule of Moderation rewrites the history of early modern England, showing that many of its key developments - the via media of Anglicanism, political liberty, the development of empire and even religious toleration - were defined and defended as instances of coercive moderation, producing the 'middle way' through the forcible restraint of apparently dangerous excesses in Church, state and society. By showing that the quintessentially English quality of moderation was at heart an ideology of control, Ethan Shagan illuminates the subtle violence of English history and explains how, paradoxically, England came to represent reason, civility and moderation to a world it slowly conquered.

Excess and the mean in early modern English literature
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ISBN: 0691090289 9786612158643 1400824931 1282158643 1400814634 9781400814633 9780691090283 9781400824939 1400817994 9781282158641 Year: 2002 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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This book examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. As early modern authors learned at grammar school and university, Aristotle and other classical thinkers praised "golden means" balanced between extremes: courage, for example, as opposed to cowardice or recklessness. By uncovering the enormous variety of English responses to this ethical doctrine, Joshua Scodel revises our understanding of the vital interaction between classical thought and early modern literary culture. Scodel argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars. Through close readings of diverse writers and genres, he shows that conflicting representations of means and extremes figured prominently in the emergence of a self-consciously modern English culture. Donne, for example, reshaped the classical mean to promote individual freedom, while Bacon held extremism necessary for human empowerment. Imagining a modern rival to ancient Rome, georgics from Spenser to Cowley exhorted England to embody the mean or lauded extreme paths to national greatness. Drinking poetry from Jonson to Rochester expressed opposing visions of convivial moderation and drunken excess, while erotic writing from Sidney to Dryden and Behn pitted extreme passion against the traditional mean of conjugal moderation. Challenging his predecessors in various genres, Milton celebrated golden means of restrained pleasure and self-respect. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Scodel suggests how early modern treatments of means and extremes resonate in present-day cultural debates.


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Recasting Bourgeois Europe : Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I
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ISBN: 9781400873708 9780691169798 0691169799 1400873703 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe as his first book in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization.Arguing that a common trajectory calls for a multi country analysis, Maier provides a comparative history of three European nations and argues that they did not simply return to a prewar status quo, but achieved a new balance of state authority and interest group representation. While most previous accounts presented the decade as a prelude to the Depression and dictatorships, Maier suggests that the stabilization of the 1920s, vulnerable as it was, foreshadowed the more enduring political stability achieved after World War II.The immense and ambitious scope of this book, its ability to follow diverse histories in detail, and its effort to explain stabilization-and not just revolution or breakdown-have made it a classic of European history.


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Remembering inflation
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ISBN: 9780691145402 0691145407 1299688063 1400846447 9781400846443 9781299688063 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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Today's global economy, with most developed nations experiencing very low inflation, seems a world apart from the "Great Inflation" that spanned the late 1960's to early 1980's. Yet, in this book, Brigitte Granville makes the case that monetary economists and policymakers need to keep the lessons learned during that period very much in mind, lest we return to them by making the same mistakes we made in the past. Granville details the advances in macroeconomic thinking that gave rise to the "Great Moderation"--a period of stable inflation and economic growth, which lasted from the mid-1980's through the most recent financial crisis. She makes the case that the central banks' management of monetary policy--hinging on expectations and credibility--brought about this period of stability, and traces the roots of this success back to the eighteenth-century foundations of modern monetary thought. Tackling fundamental questions such as the causes of inflation and its relation to unemployment and growth, the natural rate of inflation hypothesis, the fiscal theory of the price level, and the proper goals of central banks, the book aims above all to demonstrate the dangers of forgetting the role of credibility in establishing sound monetary policy. With the lessons of the past firmly in mind, Granville presents stimulating ideas and proposals about inflation-targeting principles, which provide tools for present-day monetary authorities dealing with the forces of globalization, mercantilism, and reserve accumulation.


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A virtue for courageous minds : moderation in French political thought, 1748-1830
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ISBN: 9780691146768 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press

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