The Middle Ages marked the definitive break with the ancient conception that opposed servile labour to the idleness of intellectual life and the exercise of the liberal arts. Within this paradigm shift, a central role was played by the 13th-century dispute between mendicant orders and secular clergy, involving scholastic masters such as Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and Thomas Aquinas. In their thinking emerges a new conception of work, which is placed within a more complex conceptual network made up of categories such as grace, toil, poverty, possession, alms, remuneration. A conception that on the one hand confers a new dignity on manual labour, and on the other allows for the elaboration of a precise notion of intellectual labour.
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Chapter Title
Lavoro, ozio e mendicità: la disputa duecentesca tra Ordini mendicanti e clero secolare
Authors
Silvana Vecchio
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.25
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
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
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919