The Disciplinary Revolution
Subtitle: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: July 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780226304830
Subjects: Continental European Reformed Churches; Archaeology / Anthropology; History: World; Europe; Anthropology - Cultural; Europe - General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Christian sociology; Church and state; History; Reformed Church
First sentence: The differences between the theoretical perspective advanced here and the one adopted in most work on state formation can be easily grasped in terms of a common metaphor, the metaphor of the body politic, and, more specifically, by means of one of its better-known representations, the frontispiece to the first edition of Hobbes's Leviathan (see opposite page).