Fifteenth- and seventeenth-century theologians-jurists, and in particularthe Early Modern Scholastics, are confronted with the issue of otium as a real problem, not just as an object of rhetorical speculation. They question the role of the idler within human communities where otium is made possible by an increasingly widespread financial economy (the numerous 'capitalist' investors in the new transatlantic trades are emblematic of this), but where such idleness also becomes an absolutely pressing social issue when it comes to the idleness suffered, especially in cities where large numbers of people without any occupation flow in from the countryside. Added to these problems is the issue of 'natural' idleness, which, in the eyes of observers of the time, seems to be a peculiar characteristic of the american natives.
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Titolo del capitolo
Otium e otiosi nella riflessione dei teologi-giuristi della prima modernità (XVI-XVII sec.)
Autori
Luisa Brunori
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.27
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Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Curatori
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
1894
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919