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Townspeople and Nation - English Urban Experiences, 1540-1640 (Hardcover)
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Townspeople and Nation - English Urban Experiences, 1540-1640 (Hardcover)
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The century bounded by the Henrician Reformation and the Civil Wars
marked an important stage in the development of urban institutions,
culture, and society in England. At the outset of this period,
England was still very much an agrarian society; by its end, it was
well on the way to becoming an urban one as well. The complexity
and subtlety of those developments become especially vivid when we
experience them through the lives of more or less ordinary
townspeople, which Tittler allows us to do here.
These biographical studies not only have much to tell us about the
time and milieu, but also provide an array of interesting and
varied characters: Henry Manship, the historian of his native
Yarmouth; Henry Hardware, who removed "the giant, the naked boys
and the devil in feathers" from Chester's Midsummer Show; Robert
Swaddon the swindler and John Pulman the "thief-taker" of London;
Joyce Jeffries, the spinster money-lender of Hereford; John Brown,
the speculator in dissolved monastic lands in Boston; John Pitt,
the overseer of guildhall construction in Blandford Forum; John and
Joan Cooke, the Mayor and Mayoress of Gloucester, the subjects of a
most revealing posthumous portrait; and Sir Thomas White of London,
the philanthropist and "merchant hero." Tittler introduces these
studies with a comprehensive but succinct description of English
towns and cities of the time.
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