Chapter 9 of Bourgeois Revaluation:
Aristocratic England Scorned Measurement
March 30th, 2010
One countable piece of evidence that bourgeois values were becoming dominant in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is the new, dominate role of counting in giving evidence. It is assuredly modern, and was not in fashion during Dekker’s or Shakespeare’s time. The pre-modern attitude — which survives nowadays in many a non-quantitative modern (more…)
