I suspect I am not the only one who learned about the emergence of individualism in the medieval period, If anyone has sources off the top of their head that would be good.https://twitter.com/ruschenpohler/status/1193959876394770433 …
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I've always treated such claims as skeptical and teleological? idk maybe i'm missing some brilliant study out there, but a lot of it seems to be really trying to draw a line between "primitive tribalism" and "Good Modernity Times"
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
and here i thought we'd binned evolutionary theory ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @AdmiralHip
Wait, I'm just asking for the emergence of first signs of individualism. If you're sceptical of what you call "broad brush" approaches, surely you have detailed narrative accounts of how specific individualistic traits (however you define them) came abt in certain times & places?
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Replying to @ruschenpohler @HalstedMedieval
Yes, sorry, I should have clarified. I do not mean broad brush stuff, I mean there are studies on individualism out there within the context of medieval history.
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The Big One is Aron Gurevich’s The Origins of European Individualism (trans. 1995), but its theses are no longer widely accepted because ... well we don’t do That Kind Of Big Theses anymore. Still an interesting read - but read carefully!https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Origins_of_European_Individualism.html?hl=nl&id=QrksZOjpURYC …
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Ah yeah, this is the one. Granted, much of the history theories I learned in my undergrad I am now unlearning. Lol.
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