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Author : John Chartres,David Hey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521031567
Written largely by her former research students, this book honours the varied and creative career of Joan Thirsk.
Author : J. Z. Titow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351625715
This title, first published in 1969, is concerned with historic documents and their uses, and with a discussion of living standards among the peasants, as it is the author’s belief that any worthwhile discussion is impossible without an understanding of the sources and their limitations. With its emphasis on the controversial and debateable, this book is admirable proof that a study of medieval history is not merely a matter of memorising facts.
Author : John Broad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139451888
Between 1540 and 1920 the English elite transformed the countryside and landscape by building up landed estates which were concentrated around their country houses. John Broad's study of the Verney family of Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire demonstrates two sides of that process. Charting the family's rise to wealth impelled by a strong dynastic imperative, Broad shows how the Verneys sought out heiress marriages to expand wealth and income. In parallel, he shows how the family managed its estates to maximize income and transformed three local village communities, creating a pattern of 'open' and 'closed' villages familiar to nineteenth-century commentators. Based on the formidable Verney family archive with its abundant correspondence, this book also examines the world of poor relief, farming families as well as strategies for estate expansion and social enhancement. It will appeal to anyone interested in the English countryside as a dynamic force in social and economic history.
Author : J. Bowen,A. Brown
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909291638
English rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and industrialization producing new challenges and opportunities for inhabitants of rural communities. However, our understanding of this period has been shaped by the compartmentalization of history into medieval and early-modern specialisms and by the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism and landlord-tenant relations. Inspired by the classic works of Tawney and Postan, this collection of essays examines their relevance to historians today, distinguishing between their contrasting approaches to the pre-industrial economy and exploring the development of agriculture and rural industry; changes in land and property rights; and competition over resources in the English countryside.
Author : S. Bending,A. McRae
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230508255
The Writing of Rural England 1500-1800 documents and contextualizes the conflicting representations of rural life during a crucial period of social, economic and cultural change. It highlights the dialogues and tensions between agriculture and aesthetics, economics and morality, men and women, leisure and labour. By drawing on both canonical and marginal texts, it argues that early-modern writing not only reflected but played a part in constructing the cultural meanings of the English countryside with which we continue to live.
Author : A. T. Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783270750
A regional study of landed society in the transition between the late medieval and early modern period.
Author : Barry Coward,Peter Gaunt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351985420
The Stuart Age provides an accessible introduction to England's century of civil war and revolution, including the causes of the English Civil War; the nature of the English Revolution; the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell; the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration England; and the impact of the Glorious Revolution on Britain. The fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated by Peter Gaunt to reflect new work and changing trends in research on the Stuart age. It expands on key areas including the early Stuart economic, religious and social context; key military events and debates surrounding the English Civil War; colonial expansion, foreign policy and overseas wars; and significant developments in Scotland and Ireland. A new opening chapter provides an important overview of current historiographical trends in Stuart history, introducing readers to key recent work on the topic. The Stuart Age is a long-standing favourite of lecturers and students of early modern British history, and this new edition is essential reading for those studying Stuart Britain.
Author : Kelsey Thornton,Simon White,Mick Schrey,Eric Robinson,Nick Groom,Donna Landry,Sam Ward,Rodney Lines,Tim Brownlow,Mark Noe,Catherine Byron
Publisher : John Clare Society
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0953899578
The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.
Author : Felicity Heal,Clive Holmes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349236404
The book is the first full analysis of the gentry in the early modern period since G.E.Mingay The Gentry: the Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class (1976). It offers a synthesis of the recent specialist work on this key social and political group, but will also provide a distinctive approach to its subjects through the use of the texts and artefacts by which the gentry sought to fashion themselves.
Author : Alexandra Shepard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192552426
Accounting for Oneself is a major new study of the social order in early modern England, as viewed and articulated from the bottom up. Engaging with how people from across the social spectrum placed themselves within the social order, it pieces together the language of self-description deployed by over 13,500 witnesses in English courts when answering questions designed to assess their creditworthiness. Spanning the period between 1550 and 1728, and with a broad geographical coverage, this study explores how men and women accounted for their 'worth' and described what they did for a living at differing points in the life-cycle. A corrective to top-down, male-centric accounts of the social order penned by elite observers, the perspective from below testifies to an intricate hierarchy based on sophisticated forms of social reckoning that were articulated throughout the social scale. A culture of appraisal was central to the competitive processes whereby people judged their own and others' social positions. For the majority it was not land that was the yardstick of status but moveable property-the goods and chattels in people's possession ranging from livestock to linens, tools to trading goods, tables to tubs, clothes to cushions. Such items were repositories of wealth and the security for the credit on which the bulk of early modern exchange depended. Accounting for Oneself also sheds new light on women's relationship to property, on gendered divisions of labour, and on early modern understandings of work which were linked as much to having as to getting a living. The view from below was not unchanging, but bears witness to the profound impact of widening social inequality that opened up a chasm between the middle ranks and the labouring poor between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. As a result, not only was the social hierarchy distorted beyond recognition, from the later-seventeenth century there was also a gradual yet fundamental reworking of the criteria informing the calculus of esteem.
Author : Susan E. James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134781010
Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women’s private writings available to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out, commenting on their daily lives, on identity, gender, status, familial relationships and social engagement. Wills show women to have been active participants in a civil society, well aware of their personal authority and potential influence, whose committed actions during life and charitable strategies after death could and did impact the health of that society. From an intensive analysis of more than 1200 wills, this pioneering work focuses on women from all parts of the country and all strata of society, revealing an entire population of articulate, opportunistic, and capable individuals who found the spaces between the lines of the law and used those spaces to achieve personal goals. Author Susan James demonstrates how wills describe strategies for end-of-life care, create platforms of remembrance, and offer insights into the myriad occupational endeavors in which women were engaged. James illuminates how these documents were not simply instruments of bequest and inheritance, but were statements of power and control, catalogues of material culture from which we are able to gauge a woman’s understanding of her own reality and the context that formed her environment. Wills were tools and the way in which women wielded these tools offers new ways to look at England in the 16th century and reveals the seminal role women played in its development.
Author : Henry French,Richard Hoyle
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0719051088
This is a major study of the transformation of early modern English rural society. It begins by assessing the three major debates about the character of English society: the 'Brenner Debate'; the debate over English Individualism; and the long running debate over the disappearance of the small landowner. It then turns to the history of Earls Colne in Essex, which has never before been the subject of a full-length study despite it being one of the most discussed villages in England. It is a key work for all those interested in how English rural society changed between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Author : Carl B. Estabrook
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0719053196
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 : Jonathan Barry,Christopher Brooks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349236565
This volume of essays seeks to offer a radical re-evaluation of most of our preconceptions about the early-modern English social order. The majority of people who lived in early-modern England were neither very rich nor very poor, yet a disproportionate amount of historiography has been directed towards precisely these groups. This book intends to define the term 'middle classes' and treat them as active participants of history, rather than as a simple by-product rising and falling according to others' activities.
Author : A. Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136618390
Working life of Women in the Seventeenth Century, originally published in 1919, was the first comprehensive analysis of the daily lives of ordinary women in early modern England. It remains the most wide ranging introduction to the subject. Clark uses a variety of documentary sources to illuminate the experience of women in the past. Gentlewomen left memoirs, letters, and household accounts detailing administration of their family estates; craftsmen's wives and widows figure in the apprenticeship and licensing records of guilds and towns; the wives of yeomen, husbandmen and labourers are glimpsed in court evidence, petitions and the registers of parish poor relief. Alice Clark's evidence dates from the later sixteenth to the early eighteenth century, and her analysis addresses a broad transition, from a medieval subsistence economy to the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Clark's conclusions about the effects of industrial capitalism on women's working conditions and contribution to the economy were controversial in her own time and remain so today. Her vivid portrayal of the everyday lives of working women - and all women who worked - in seventeenth-century England remains unsurpassed. This book was first published in 1919.
