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Earls Colne's Early Modern Landscapes (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Earls Colne's Early Modern Landscapes (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Essex village of Earls Colne boasts one of the most
comprehensive collections of historical documents in Britain, and
has been the subject of an intensive and ongoing research project
to collate and computerise the surviving records. As such, Earls
Colne is undoubtedly one of the most studied parishes in England.
Yet whilst much is now known about the village and its inhabitants,
little work has been done on the social relationships that bound
the community together within its mental and physical landscape. As
such, scholars will welcome Dr MacKinnon's investigation into the
social, political and cultural world of early modern England as
represented by Earls Colne. The book provides a fresh approach to
the study of the landscape of a seventeenth-century village by
focussing on the relationships between political power and cultural
artefacts. It examines how private, public and communal spaces
within society were generated, gendered and governed, and how this
was recorded and perpetuated in the records, names, and monuments
of the parish and surrounding landscape. Yet whilst the 'elites'
tried to represent a select social landscape through their control
of the local records and documents, these attempts were always
counterbalanced by the less powerful members of the community who
occupied and contested these spaces. By reconstructing the dynamics
of Earls Colne through a careful reading and cross-referencing of
the surviving documents, buildings and place names, this book
offers a fascinating insight into how the sights and sounds of
early modern society were imbued with the social relations of
parish politics. As well as deepening our understanding of Earls
Colne itself, the book offers historians the potential to revisit
other local studies from a fresh perspective.
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