Background
Becker, Marvin Burton was born on July 20, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Benjamin and Florence (Wachs) Becker.
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There are two volumes. Volume One is The Decline of the Commune. Volume Two is Studies in the Rise of the Territorial State.
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( Becker's richly allusive essay in social and cultural h...)
Becker's richly allusive essay in social and cultural history traces the emergence of a new civil society in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy and its later exportation to England. This new society was characterized by measure and control, by a separation of private from public concerns, by self-cultivation and self-conscious role playing, and by an inward and personal, rather than outward and social, orientation. The contours of this new social paradigm are revealed in Becker's careful examination of particular aspects of Tuscan culture and society during this period and their translation to England some two centuries later.
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"This is a stimulating book." —Choice "... with its rich historical and cultural detail draws us again and again into the fine webs of everyday life that defined eighteenth-century society and the idea of civil society therein." —William and Mary Quarterly In this sequel to ÂCivility and Society in Western Europe, 1300-1600, Marvin Becker treats the rise of civil society in England and Scotland and the shift in human sociability from familiarity toward impersonality, from public toward private, from social solidarity toward self-interest.
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James Banker and Carol Lansing have shaped a collection of the works of Marvin B. Becker, a respected scholar in Florentine and Renaissance history. Becker began his work in 1953 when he arrived in Florence as a Fulbright Scholar, only eight years after the end of World War II. Italy was still struggling with the turbulent wake of the war's end. In those chaotic circumstances, Becker commenced his study of the tumultuous past of Florentine society, producing a rich amount of scholarly work to enhance the field. In the capital of humanism, he initiated what was to be a lifelong examination of the Western civil tradition. In Florence he could study the interplay of ideas and action in what he was to call the "public world." The rise of this world out of the private, feudal and corporate structures of the medieval commune, its functioning and its eventual subversion by the authoritarian structures of the early modern state were, he thought, valuable information for modern political cultures. In the 1950s and 1960s, Becker produced approximately twenty papers dealing with a wide variety of themes and issues raised by the work of other scholars such as Davidson, Salvemini, Ottokar, Panella, Rodolico, Barbadoro, Baron, and others. He also introduced his own formulations on a range of subjects including the political role of Florence's minor guilds, usury, taxation, public debt, popular heresy, church-state relations, the city's chroniclers, the influence of "new men" upon Florentine government and changing mentalities. These papers, in their originality, their richness of documentation and their suggestiveness, are still relevant for current scholarship. The editors of this volume have chosen the papers for the convenience of readers who may know Becker only through his books, or from the myriad of footnotes of other scholars who have drawn so much from his work. This volume will be of interest to scholars, students, and others interested in Renaissance history, whether it be social or political. Marvin B. Becker is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, University of Michigan. James Banker is Professor of History, North Carolina State University. Carol Lansing is Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Becker, Marvin Burton was born on July 20, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Benjamin and Florence (Wachs) Becker.
Bachelor of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1946; Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1950.
Assistant professor of history, U. Arkansas, 1950-1952; Assistant professor of history, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio., 1952-1956; associate professor, Western Reserve U., 1957-1963; professor, U. Rochester, New York, 1964-1973; professor of history, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1973; department chairman, University of Michigan, 1977-1979; Richard Hudson research professor, University of Michigan, 1984-1985. Seminar presenter Spelman Villa of Johns Hopkins University, Florence, Italy,1995.
( Becker's richly allusive essay in social and cultural h...)
( James Banker and Carol Lansing have shaped a collection...)
( "This is a stimulating book." —Choice "... with its ri...)
(There are two volumes. Volume One is The Decline of the C...)
(Nonfiction: History)
Served with Army of the United States, 1944. Member Medieval Academy, Renaissance Society of America, American History Association, National Humanities Faculty, Society Scholars (Johns Hopkins University 1992).
Married Beatrice Lapayowker, January 16, 1944. Children: Wendy, Dana.