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Brian P. Levack
Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 s
Autor:
Brian P. Levack
Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 s
Autor:
Brian P. Levack
The first part of this chapter deals with the theory of trust, explaining why it is more of an emotion than a rational calculation, evaluating to what extent it may be considered a moral, civic, or social virtue, and assessing the loss of freedom, th
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847409.003.0002
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Brian P. Levack
Distrust of the Bank of England, the stock market, and the large companies engaged in overseas trade reached a peak in the South Sea Bubble of 1720. Distrust of national banks later became a recurrent source of distrust in the United States, which le
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847409.003.0005
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Brian P. Levack
A lack of confidence in English law courts first arose in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in response to the corruption of justice in outlying regions of the country. Reforms undertaken by the governments of Henry VII and Henry VIII
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847409.003.0004
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Brian P. Levack
This chapter deals with two separate developments that caused a loss of trust in established churches in England, Scotland, and America. The first was the long tradition of anticlericalism, which played a pivotal role in England’s break with the Ro
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Brian P. Levack
The chapter begins with a discussion of the political philosophy of Locke, who claimed that all government is, or at least should be, based on trust. Locke’s theory originated in response to the policies of the governments of Charles II and James I
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Brian P. Levack
The Conclusion identifies four themes that link the loss of trust in early modern British and American institutions with the corresponding loss of trust in British and American institutions in the past fifty years. These themes are the abuse of power
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During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries an increasingly literate and politically conscious public in England expressed growing distrust of national political, legal, financial, commercial, and ecclesiastical institutions. The incr
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847409.001.0001
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Brian P. Levack
This brief introduction explains that the book breaks new ground on the subject of trust by providing the various historical contexts in which distrust of public institutions arose in early modern Britain and North America. The introduction establish
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