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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Riesenberg, Peter N., 1925- Citizenship in the Western tradition. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1992 (OCoLC)624582903 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter N Riesenberg |
| ISBN: | 0807820377 9780807820377 0807843792 9780807843796 |
| OCLC Number: | 25163742 |
| Description: | xxiv, 324 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. I. Ancient Citizenship: Virtue in the Service of Community. 1. Greece. 2. Rome -- Pt. II. Citizenship in the Medieval Italian City. 3. Medieval Christian Citizenship: Some Generalities. 4. The Bonds, Language, and Emotion. 5. The Law and Language of Citizenship. 6. Citizenship in the Renaissance -- Pt. III. The Subject and the Citizen. 7. Ambiguities of Citizenship under Monarchy. 8. Citizenship under the Impact of Revolution. 9. The Final Citizenship of the Old Regime. |
| Responsibility: | Peter Riesenberg. |
Abstract:
moral code providing the basis for individual identity and community; as a principle of discrimination between those who do and those who do not enjoy certain political privileges, rights, and responsibilities; and as a demand for active participation in civic life. He shows that our tradition of citizenship developed in the realities of the small-scale society in which most people lived prior to the Industrial Revolution. Citizenship as exemplified in ancient and.
medieval traditions survived the Age of Absolutism and came to serve the new large-scale monarchical politics, which Riesenberg relates to the republican regimes founded in the wake of revolutions in France and America. Citizenship in the Western Tradition is based upon a variety of sources, including medieval manuscripts and legal records. Beyond such authors as Aristotle, Dante, More, Hobbes, and Rousseau, it relies upon an examination of the legal and constitutional.
literature of early modern Europe. Bodin and Grotius are cited, as well as the statutes of many Italian city-states. Notably, it examines the litigation surrounding citizenship as revealed in the consilia, an enormous body of medieval case law.
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