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The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780226304861
DOI
10.7208/9780226304861
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19391836 bytes)
Pages
266\267
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-15 04:35:08

Description

What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation. By refining and diffusing a variety of disciplinary techniques and strategies, such as communal surveillance, control through incarceration, and bureaucratic office-holding, Calvin and his followers created an infrastructure of religious governance and social control that served as a model for the rest of Europe—and the world.

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