Manual Work and Mental Work Humanist Knowledge for Professions in the Siglo de Oro

In the early modern period, numerous texts deal with professions by presenting the knowledge required in each case, detailing individual fields of activity, purpose, origin and prestige. The course of argumentation was humanistic, insofar as it mostly started from the human being. The ancient idea o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strosetzki, Christoph
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Conceptions of work
  • 2 Alternatives to work
  • 3 Collections
  • 4 Mechanical arts
  • 5 Artes liberales
  • 6 Higher faculties
  • 7 Crafts and hierarchy