The Power Of Petitioning In Early Modern Britain

Author : Brodie Waddell,Jason Peacey
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800085503

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The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain by Brodie Waddell,Jason Peacey Pdf

The ‘humble petition’ was ubiquitous in early modern society and featured prominently in crucial moments such as the outbreak of the civil wars and in everyday local negotiations about taxation, welfare and litigation. People at all levels of society – from noblemen to paupers – used petitions to make their voices heard and these are valuable sources for mapping the structures of authority and agency that framed early modern society. The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain offers a holistic study of this crucial topic in early modern British history. The contributors survey a vast range of sources, showing the myriad ways people petitioned the authorities from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They cross the jurisdictional, sub-disciplinary and chronological boundaries that have otherwise constrained the current scholarly literature on petitioning and popular political engagement. Teasing out broad conclusions from innumerable smaller interventions in public life, they not only address the aims, attitudes and strategies of those involved, but also assesses the significance of the processes they used. This volume makes it possible to rethink the power of petitioning and to re-evaluate broad trends regarding political culture, institutional change and state formation.

Author : Peacey WADDELL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800085516

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Power Petitioning Early Modern Britain by Peacey WADDELL Pdf

Author : Karin Bowie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367630001

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Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, C.1550-1795 by Karin Bowie Pdf

This book assesses the everyday use of petitions in administrative and judicial settings and contrasts these with more assertive forms of political petitioning addressed to assemblies or rulers. A petition used to be a humble means of asking a favour, but in the early modern period, petitioning became more assertive and participative. This book shows how this contrasted to ordinary petitioning, often to the consternation of authorities. By evaluating petitioning practices in Scotland, England and Denmark, the book traces the boundaries between ordinary and adversarial petitioning and shows how non-elites could become involved in politics through petitioning. Also observed are the responses of authorities to participative petitions, including the suppression or forgetting of unwelcome petitions and consequent struggles to establish petitioning as a right rather than a privilege. Together the chapters in this book indicate the significance of collective petitioning in articulating early modern public opinion and shaping contemporary ideas about opinion at large. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Parliaments, Estates & Representation.

Author : Mark Hailwood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843839422

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Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England by Mark Hailwood Pdf

Representing a history of drinking 'from below', this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-century English society.

Author : Amanda Whiting
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 2503547788

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Women and Petitioning in the Seventeenth-century English Revolution by Amanda Whiting Pdf

During the English Civil Wars and Revolution (1640-60), the affairs of Church and State came under a crucial new form of comment and critique, in the form of public petitions. Petitioning was a readily available mode of communication for women, and this study explores the ways in which petitioning in seventeenth-century England was adapted out of and differed from pre-Revolutionary modes, whilst also highlighting gendered conventions and innovations of petitioning in that period. Male petitioning in the seventeenth century did not have to negotiate the cultural assumptions about intellectual inferiority and legal incapacity that constrained women. Yet just because women did not claim separate (and modern) women's rights does not mean that they were passive, quiescent, or had no political agency. On the contrary, as this study shows, women in the Revolution could use petitioning as a powerful way to address those in power, precisely because it was done from an assumed position of weakness. The petition is not simply a text, authored by a single pen, but a series of social transactions, performed in multiple social and political settings, frequently involving people previously excluded from participation in political discussion or action. To the extent that women participated in collective petitioning, or turned their individual addresses into printed artefacts for public scrutiny, they also participated in the public sphere of political opinion and debate.

Author : Lex Heerma van Voss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521013224

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Petitions in Social History by Lex Heerma van Voss Pdf

This book looks at petitions over the last five centuries to reconstruct the lives and opinions of 'humble' petitioners. Since Pharaonic times, governments have allowed their subjects to voice opinions in the form of petitions, which have demanded a favour or the redressment of an injustice. To be effective, a petition had to mention the request, usually a motivation and always the name or names of the petitioners. As a result, grievances of ordinary people which were not written down anywhere else are now stored safely in the archives of the authorities to which the petitions were addressed. The petitions considered in this book, which come from all over the globe, offer rich and valuable sources for social historians.

Author : R. Houston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137394095

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Peasant Petitions by R. Houston Pdf

This book examines the structures and texture of rural social relationships, using one type of document found in abundance over all the four component parts of Britain and Ireland: petitions from tenants to their landlords. The book offers unexpected angles on many aspects of society and economy on estates in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Author : Teresa Phipps,Deborah Youngs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000528886

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Litigating Women by Teresa Phipps,Deborah Youngs Pdf

This edited collection, written by both established and new researchers, reveals the experiences of litigating women across premodern Europe and captures the current state of research in this ever-growing field. Individually, the chapters offer an insight into the motivations and strategies of women who engaged in legal action in a wide range of courts, from local rural and urban courts, to ecclesiastical courts and the highest jurisdictions of crown and parliament. Collectively, the focus on individual women litigants – rather than how women were defined by legal systems – highlights continuities in their experiences of justice, while also demonstrating the unique and intersecting factors that influenced each woman’s negotiation of the courts. Spanning a broad chronology and a wide range of contexts, these studies also offer a valuable insight into the practices and priorities of the many courts under discussion that goes beyond our focus on women litigants. Drawing on archival research from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, the Low Countries, Central and Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia, Litigating Women is the perfect resource for students and scholars interested in legal studies and gender in medieval and early modern Europe.

Author : Karin Bowie,Thomas Munck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000293500

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Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795 by Karin Bowie,Thomas Munck Pdf

This book assesses the everyday use of petitions in administrative and judicial settings and contrasts these with more assertive forms of political petitioning addressed to assemblies or rulers. A petition used to be a humble means of asking a favour, but in the early modern period, petitioning became more assertive and participative. This book shows how this contrasted to ordinary petitioning, often to the consternation of authorities. By evaluating petitioning practices in Scotland, England and Denmark, the book traces the boundaries between ordinary and adversarial petitioning and shows how non-elites could become involved in politics through petitioning. Also observed are the responses of authorities to participative petitions, including the suppression or forgetting of unwelcome petitions and consequent struggles to establish petitioning as a right rather than a privilege. Together the chapters in this book indicate the significance of collective petitioning in articulating early modern public opinion and shaping contemporary ideas about opinion at large. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Parliaments, Estates & Representation.

Author : Michael J. Braddick,John Walter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521651638

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Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society by Michael J. Braddick,John Walter Pdf

A volume of new essays on the dynamics of power in early modern societies.

Author : Nicholas Phillipson,Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521392426

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Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain by Nicholas Phillipson,Quentin Skinner Pdf

Inspired by the work of intellectual historian J. G. A. Pocock, this 1993 collection explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain.

Author : Randy Robertson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271036557

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Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England by Randy Robertson Pdf

Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed picture of early modern censorship and investigates the pressures that censorship exerted on seventeenth-century authors, printers, and publishers. In the 1600s, Britain witnessed a civil war, the judicial execution of a king, the restoration of his son, and an unremitting struggle among crown, parliament, and people for sovereignty and the right to define “liberty and property.” This battle, sometimes subtle, sometimes bloody, entailed a struggle for the control of language and representation. Robertson offers a richly detailed study of this “censorship contest” and of the craft that writers employed to outflank the licensers. He argues that for most parties, victory, not diplomacy or consensus, was the ultimate goal. This book differs from most recent works in analyzing both the mechanics of early modern censorship and the poetics that the licensing system produced—the forms and pressures of self-censorship. Among the issues that Robertson addresses in this book are the workings of the licensing machinery, the designs of art and obliquity under a regime of censorship, and the involutions of authorship attendant on anonymity.

Author : John Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107015111

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Early Modern Britain, 1450-1750 by John Miller Pdf

A wide-ranging survey of the political, social, cultural and economic history of early modern Britain, offering a fully integrated four-nation perspective.

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Freedom of the press
ISBN : PRNC:32101068573029

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Areopagitica by John Milton Pdf

Author : David Brown,Robert Crowcroft,Gordon Pentland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191024276

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000 by David Brown,Robert Crowcroft,Gordon Pentland Pdf

The two centuries after 1800 witnessed a series of sweeping changes in the way in which Britain was governed, the duties of the state, and its role in the wider world. Powerful processes - from the development of democracy, the changing nature of the social contract, war, and economic dislocation - have challenged, and at times threatened to overwhelm, both governors and governed. Such shifts have also presented challenges to the historians who have researched and written about Britain's past politics. This Handbook shows the ways in which political historians have responded to these challenges, providing a snapshot of a field which has long been at the forefront of conceptual and methodological innovation within historical studies. It comprises thirty-three thematic essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field. Collectively, these essays assess and rethink the nature of modern British political history itself and suggest avenues and questions for future research. The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History thus provides a unique resource for those who wish to understand Britain's political past and a thought-provoking 'long view' for those interested in current political challenges.