[PDF] Society In Early Modern England eBook

Author : Phil Withington
Publisher : Polity
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0745641296

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The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have traditionally been regarded by historians as a period of intense and formative historical change, so much so that they have often been described as ‘early modern' - an epoch separate from ‘the medieval' and ‘the modern'. Paying particular attention to England, this book reflects on the implications of this categorization for contemporary debates about the nature of modernity and society. The book traces the forgotten history of the phrase 'early modern' to its coinage as a category of historical analysis by the Victorians and considers when and why words like 'modern' and 'society' were first introduced into English in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In so doing it unpicks the connections between linguistic and social change and how the consequences of those processes still resonate today. A major contribution to our understanding of European history before 1700 and its resonance for social thought today, the book will interest anybody concerned with the historical antecedents of contemporary culture and the interconnections between the past and the present.

Author : Christopher W. Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1139475290

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Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war, and explores the ways in which law mediated and constituted social and economic relationships within the household, the community, and the state at all levels. By arguing that English common law was essentially the creation of the wider community, it challenges many current assumptions and opens new perspectives about how early-modern society should be understood. Its magisterial scope and lucid exposition will make it essential reading for those interested in subjects ranging from high politics and constitutional theory to the history of the family, as well as the history of law.

Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2005
Category : England
ISBN : 0415344433

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A thorough sourcebook and accessible student text covering the interplay between religion, politics, society and popular culture in the Tudor and Stuart periods. `An excellent and imaginative collection.' - Diarmaid MacCulloch

Author : Christopher Marsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1107610249

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Comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey of English popular music during the early modern period. Accompanied by specially commissioned recordings.

Author : Alexandra Shepard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783270179

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Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history. A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid economic and demographic growth and on related processesof cultural diversification, the contributors address fundamental questions about the character of English society during a period of decisive change. Prefaced by a substantial introduction which traces the evolution of early modern social history over the last fifty years, these essays (each of them written by a leading authority) not only offer state-of-the-art assessments of the historiography but also represent the latest research on a variety of topics that have been at the heart of the development of 'the new social history' and its cultural turn: gender relations and sexuality; governance and litigation; class and deference; labouring relations, neighbourliness and reciprocity; and social status and consumption. STEVE HINDLE is W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. ALEXANDRA SHEPARD is Reader in History, University of Glasgow. JOHN WALTER is Professor of History, University of Essex. Contributors: Helen Berry, Adam Fox, H. R. French, Malcolm Gaskill, Paul Griffiths, Steve Hindle, Craig Muldrew, Lindsay O'Neill, Alexandra Shepard, Tim Stretton, Naomi Tadmor, John Walter, Phil Withington, Andy Wood

Author : Kevin M. Sharpe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 2003-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521824347

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This book charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts in early modern England.

Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1134814763

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1000939847

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The common theme of this selection of articles by David Cressy, published over the last twenty-five years, is the linkage of elite and popular culture and the participation of ordinary people in the central events of their age. The collection also traces a development in historical style and method, from quantitative applications using statistics to qualitative telling of tales. Seven essays under the heading 'Opportunities' explore problems of education, literacy and cultural attainment within the gendered and hierarchically ordered society of Elizabeth and Stuart England. Eight more under the heading 'Passages' examine social and cultural interactions, kinship, migration, community celebrations, and rituals in the life-cycle. The collection brings together a coherent body of research that is much cited in current scholarship and continues to shape the agenda for the social and cultural history of early modern England.

Author : Patrick Collinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521028043

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Seventeen distinguished historians of early modern Britain pay tribute to an outstanding scholar and teacher, presenting reviews of major areas of debate.