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In the early modern period, numerous texts deal with professions by presenting the knowledge required in each case, individual fields of activity, purpose, origin and prestige. The course of argumentation is humanistic, insofar as it mostly starts from the human being. The ancient idea of the primacy of mental work over manual work is formative here. The importance of Spain results from the fact that the Spanish king Charles V was both emperor and ruler of the colonies in America, i.e. he ruled a world empire by the standards of the time. After discussing some central categories, overall representations of knowledge, professions, and prominent professional representatives are presented. Here, the hierarchization and its relativization by satire is revealing. The mechanical arts and the artes liberales are then presented on the basis of individual professions selected as characteristic examples, each with its own specific knowledge. The higher faculties of medicine, theology and jurisprudence with their representatives form the conclusion.
Author(s): Christoph Strosetzki
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 272
City: Berlin
Preface
Contents
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Conceptions of Work
Chapter 2: Alternatives to Work
Part II: Siglo de Oro
Chapter 3: Collections
3.1 Encyclopaedia
3.2 Tomaso Garzoni and Suárez de Figueroa
3.3 Inventions
3.4 Personalities and Hierarchies
3.5 Satires
Chapter 4: Mechanical Arts
4.1 Farmer
4.1.1 Antiquity and the Middle Ages
4.1.2 Early Modern Period
4.1.3 Spanish Domestic Literature
4.1.4 Country Life as a Golden Age
4.1.5 Rural Life and Primitive State
4.1.6 Country Life and Greed
4.1.7 The Idyll of the Garden
4.2 Soldier
4.2.1 Rejection and Legitimization of the War
4.2.2 Military Ranks
4.2.3 Recruitment
4.2.4 Responsibility, Motivation and Refusal to Obey Orders
4.2.5 Cunning and Treachery
4.2.6 Rebellion
4.2.7 Sword and Horse
4.2.8 Cannon and Rifles
4.3 Merchant
4.3.1 Negative Evaluation
4.3.2 Positive Evaluation
4.3.3 Virtues
4.3.4 Common Good and Self-Interest
4.3.5 Money Lending
4.3.6 Contracts
4.3.7 Respectability and Illegality
4.4 Between Mechanical Arts and Artes Liberales
4.4.1 Bricklayer and Tailor
4.4.2 Visual Arts and the Church
4.4.3 Experience and Artes
4.4.4 Fine Arts and Mathematics
4.4.5 Dignity of the Visual Arts
4.4.6 Fine Arts and Artes Liberales
4.4.7 Résumé
Chapter 5: Artes Liberales
5.1 Trivium
5.1.1 Grammarian
Beginning Lessons
Latin and Education
5.1.2 Rhetorician and Humanist
Speech Exercises
Topik
From Reading to Book
Reading Guides and Hermeneutics
Pedant
Snobbery
Satire
Ideal Images
5.2 Quadrivium
5.2.1 Musician
Music of the Spheres
Measure and Harmony
5.2.2 Mathematician
Numbers and Arithmetic Operations
Rule of Three and Economy
5.2.3 Astronomer and Astrologer
Time
Forecasts and Calculations
5.2.4 Cosmographer and Navigator
Elements
Navigation
Chapter 6: Higher Faculties
6.1 Doctor
6.1.1 Body and Soul
6.1.2 Microcosm and Macrocosm
6.1.3 Teleology
6.1.4 Between Speculation and Empiricism
6.1.5 Mental Health
6.1.6 Dietetics
6.1.7 Remedies
6.1.8 Between University Teaching and Practice
6.1.9 Surgeon and Wound Healer
6.1.10 The Plague
6.1.11 Satire
6.1.12 Résumé
6.2 Theologian
6.2.1 Chaplain
6.2.2 Practical Helper
6.2.3 Missionary
6.2.4 Confessor
6.2.5 Asset Manager
6.2.6 Retreat and Monasticism
6.2.7 Jesuit
6.2.8 memoria and Don Quixote
6.2.9 Imitation in Don Quixote
6.2.10 sola scriptura and Don Quixote as Reader
6.2.11 Résumé
6.3 Lawyer
6.3.1 Training
6.3.2 School of Salamanca
6.3.3 Chief Magistrate
6.3.4 Jurisprudence: A Science?
6.3.5 Dignity of the Lawyer
6.3.6 Alderman
6.3.7 Lawyers in Fictional Literature
6.3.8 Lawyers as Advisers to Rulers
6.3.9 Advocate
6.3.10 Satire
6.3.11 Satire in Don Quixote
6.3.12 Résumé
Part III: Outlook
Chapter 7: Craft and Hierarchy
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