Crisis And Order In English Towns 1500 1700

Author : Peter Clark,Paul Slack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135671914

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Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700 by Peter Clark,Paul Slack Pdf

This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at teh end of the Middle Ages to the influence of war on London Merchant class at the end of the seventeenth century. This book was first published in 1972.

Author : Peter Clark,Paul Slack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : OCLC:462135506

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Crisis and Order in English Towns by Peter Clark,Paul Slack Pdf

Author : John Craig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349268320

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The Reformation in English Towns, 1500-1640 by John Craig Pdf

This volume seeks to address a relatively neglected subject in the field of English reformation studies: the reformation in its urban context. Drawing on the work of a number of historians, this collection of essays will seek to explore some of the dimensions of that urban stage and to trace, using a mixture of detailed case studies and thematic reflections, some of the ways in which religious change was both effected and affected by the activities of townsmen and women.

Author : David Butcher
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843833901

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Lowestoft, 1550-1750 by David Butcher Pdf

A detailed history of the town of Lowestoft, its society, economy, and topography.

Author : Carl B. Estabrook
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0719053196

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Urbane and Rustic England by Carl B. Estabrook Pdf

The rapid growth and renewed vitality of English cities and towns in the century after 1660 was remarkable. But what was the effect of this urban renaissance on villages and those ordinary people whose roots were in the countryside?

Author : Lionel K.J. Glassey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349254323

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The Reigns of Charles II and James VII & II by Lionel K.J. Glassey Pdf

British history in the period from the restoration of 1660 to the revolution of 1688, no less than in other periods, has been subject to 'revisionism'. This volume examines and analyses some of the challenging new theories relating to politics, society, religion and culture that have attracted attention in recent years. It provides both a wide-ranging survey of the principal themes of the post-restoration era, and a series of insights derived from the detailed research of individual contributors.

Author : Penry Williams
Publisher : New Oxford History of England
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0192880446

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The Later Tudors by Penry Williams Pdf

The Later Tudors, the second volume to be published in Oxford's authoritative series The New Oxford History of England, tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and Protestant beliefs. These struggles produced acute anxiety in England, but the nation was saved from the disasters that befell her neighbors and, by the end of Elizabeth's reign, achieved a remarkable sense of political and religious identity. In this masterly and comprehensive study, Penry Williams explains how this process came about. He begins by weaving together the political, religious, and economic history of the nation, setting out the workings and development of the English state. Later chapters establish the broader perspective, with a thorough analysis of English society, family relations, and culture, focusing on the ways in which art and literature were used to uphold--and sometimes to subvert--the social and political order. The final chapter looks to Europe and across the seas at England's part in the shaping of the New World.

Author : D.M. Palliser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317901815

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The Age of Elizabeth by D.M. Palliser Pdf

This famous book was the first up-to-date survey of its field for a generation; even today, when work on early modern social history proliferates, it remains the only general economic history of the age. This second edition, substantially revised and expanded, is clear in outline, rich in detail, stressing continuity as well as change, balancing the glamour of privilege with the misery and privation of the poor, and dealing with the dark side of Tudor life -- vagabondage, starvation, superstition and cruelty -- as well as its heroic achievements.

Author : Christopher R. Friedrichs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317901853

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The Early Modern City 1450-1750 by Christopher R. Friedrichs Pdf

A pioneering text which covers the urban society of early modern Europe as a whole. Challenges the usual emphasis on regional diversity by stressing the extent to which cities across Europe shared a common urban civilization whose major features remained remarkably constant throughout the period. After outlining the physical, political, religious, economic and demographic parameters of urban life, the author vividly depicts the everyday routines of city life and shows how pitifully vulnerable city-dwellers were to disasters, epidemics, warfare and internal strife.

Author : Ian W. Archer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0521522161

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The Pursuit of Stability by Ian W. Archer Pdf

A holistic approach to interpreting early modern London society.

Author : Peter Borsay,Lindsay J. Proudfoot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0197262481

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Provincial Towns in Early Modern England and Ireland by Peter Borsay,Lindsay J. Proudfoot Pdf

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Author : David Pennington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317126164

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Going to Market by David Pennington Pdf

Going to Market rethinks women’s contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not the early modern period closed occupational opportunities for women. By attending to women’s everyday business practices, and not merely to their position on the occupational ladder, this book shows that they could take advantage of new commercial opportunities and exercise a surprising degree of economic agency. This has implications for early modern gender relations and commercial culture alike. For the evidence analyzed here suggests that male householders and town authorities alike accepted the necessity of women’s participation in the commercial economy, and that women’s assertiveness in marketplace dealings suggests how little influence patriarchal prescriptions had over the way in which men and women did business. The book also illuminates England’s departure from what we often think of as a traditional economic culture. Because women were usually in charge of provisioning the household, scholars have seen them as the most ardent supporters of an early-modern ’moral economy’, which placed the interests of poor consumers over the efficiency of markets. But the hard-headed, hard-nosed tactics of market women that emerge in this book suggests that a profit-oriented commercial culture, far from being the preserve of wealthy merchants and landowners, permeated early modern communities. Through an investigation of a broad range of primary sources-including popular literature, criminal records, and civil litigation depositions-the study reconstructs how women did business and negotiated with male householders, authorities, customers, and competitors. This analysis of the records shows women able to leverage their commercial roles and social contacts to defend the economic interests of their households and their neighborhoods.

Author : Terry Slater
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351878388

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Towns in Decline, AD100–1600 by Terry Slater Pdf

Many European towns have experienced loss of population, degradation of physical structure and profound economic change at least once since the height of the Roman Empire. This volume is an examination of the various causes of these changes, the results which flowed from them and the reasons why some urban centres survived, revived and eventually flourished again while others failed and died. The contributors bring to bear the techniques of history and archaeology, the perspectives of economics, agronomy, medicine, architecture and planning, geography and law, to the study. The result is a synthesis which connects the Decline of the Roman Empire to the effects of the Black Death and the economic transformation of Renaissance Florence.

Author : Robert Tittler,Norman L. Jones
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405189743

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A Companion to Tudor Britain by Robert Tittler,Norman L. Jones Pdf

A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative overview of historical debates about this period, focusing on the whole British Isles. An authoritative overview of scholarly debates about Tudor Britain Focuses on the whole British Isles, exploring what was common and what was distinct to its four constituent elements Emphasises big cultural, social, intellectual, religious and economic themes Describes differing political and personal experiences of the time Discusses unusual subjects, such as the sense of the past amongst British constituent identities, the relationship of cultural forms to social and political issues, and the role of scientific inquiry Bibliographies point readers to further sources of information

Author : Amy M. Froide
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9780199270606

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Never Married by Amy M. Froide Pdf

Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England investigates a paradox in the history of early modern England: although one third of adult women were never married, these women have remained largely absent from historical scholarship. Amy Froide reintroduces us to the category of difference called marital status and to the significant ways it shaped the life experiences of early modern women. By de-centring marriage as the norm in social, economic, and cultural terms,her book critically refines our current understanding of people's lives in the past and adds to a recent line of scholarship that questions just how common 'traditional' families really were.This book is both a social-economic study of singlewomen and a cultural study of the meanings of singleness in early modern England. It focuses on never-married women in England's provincial towns, and on singlewomen from a broad social spectrum. Covering the entire early modern era, it reveals that this was a time of transition in the history of never-married women. During the sixteenth century life-long singlewomen were largely absent from popular culture, but by the eighteenth century theyhad become a central concern of English society.As the first book of original research to focus on singlewomen on the period, it also illuminates other areas of early modern history. Froide reveals the importance of kinship in the past to women without husbands and children, as well as to widows, widowers, single men, and orphans. Examining the contributions of working and propertied singlewomen, she is able to illustrate the importance of gender and marital status to urban economies and to notions of urban citizenship in the early modernera. Tracing the origins of the spinster and old maid stereotypes she reveals how singlewomen were marginalized as first the victims and then the villains of Protestant English society.