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A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson which addresses
fundamental questions about the character of English society during
a period of decisive change. A tribute to the work of Keith
Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship
between enduring structures and social change in early modern
England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the
fissures and connections that developed both within and between
social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid economic and
demographic growth and on related processesof cultural
diversification, the contributors address fundamental questions
about the character of English society during a period of decisive
change. Prefaced by a substantial introduction which traces the
evolution of early modern social history over the last fifty years,
these essays (each of them written by a leading authority) not only
offer state-of-the-art assessments of the historiography but also
represent the latest research on a variety of topics that have been
at the heart of the development of 'the new social history' and its
cultural turn: gender relations and sexuality; governance and
litigation; class and deference; labouring relations,
neighbourliness and reciprocity; and social status and consumption.
STEVE HINDLE is W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the
Huntington Library, San Marino, California. ALEXANDRA SHEPARD is
Reader in History, University of Glasgow. JOHN WALTER is Professor
of History, University of Essex. Contributors: Helen Berry, Adam
Fox, H. R. French, Malcolm Gaskill, Paul Griffiths, Steve Hindle,
Craig Muldrew, Lindsay O'Neill, Alexandra Shepard, Tim Stretton,
Naomi Tadmor, John Walter, Phil Withington, Andy Wood
Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms,
demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across
the centuries. There has been a tendency in scholarship on
premodern women and the law to see married women as hidden from
view, obscured by their husbands in legal records. This volume
provides a corrective view, arguing that the extent to which the
legal principle of coverture applied has been over-emphasized. In
particular, it points up differences between the English common law
position, which gave husbands guardianship over their wives and
their wives' property, and the position elsewhere in northwest
Europe, where wives' property became part of a community of
property. Detailed studies of legal material from medieval and
early modern England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Ghent,
Sweden,Norway and Germany enable a better sense of how, when, and
where the legal principle of coverture was applied and what effect
this had on the lives of married women. Key threads running through
the book are married women'srights regarding the possession of
moveable and immovable property, marital property at the
dissolution of marriage, married women's capacity to act as agents
of their husbands and households in transacting business, and
married women's interactions with the courts. Cordelia Beattie is
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh;
Matthew Frank Stevens is Lecturer in Medieval History at Swansea
University Contributors: Lars Ivar Hansen, Shennan Hutton, Lizabeth
Johnson, Gillian Kenny, Mia Korpiola, Miriam Muller, S.C. Ogilvie,
Alexandra Shepard, Cathryn Spence.
Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a
standard work on seventeenth-century English social history. A
tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society
re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social
change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the
volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both
within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid
economic and demographic growth and on related processesof cultural
diversification, the contributors address fundamental questions
about the character of English society during a period of decisive
change. Prefaced by a substantial introduction which traces the
evolution of early modern social history over the last fifty years,
these essays (each of them written by a leading authority) not only
offer state-of-the-art assessments of the historiography but also
represent the latest research on a variety of topics that have been
at the heart of the development of 'the new social history' and its
cultural turn: gender relations and sexuality; governance and
litigation; class and deference; labouring relations,
neighbourliness and reciprocity; and social status and consumption.
STEVE HINDLE is W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the
Huntington Library, San Marino, California. ALEXANDRA SHEPARD is
Reader in History, University of Glasgow. JOHN WALTER is Professor
of History, University of Essex. Contributors: Helen Berry, Adam
Fox, H. R. French, Malcolm Gaskill, Paul Griffiths, Steve Hindle,
Craig Muldrew, Lindsay O'Neill, Alexandra Shepard, Tim Stretton,
Naomi Tadmor, John Walter, Phil Withington, Andy Wood
An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading
historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars,
which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of
power, strategies of legitimation,and the languages of politics.
One of the most notable currents in social, cultural and political
historiography is the interrogation of the categories of 'elite'
and 'popular' politics and their relationship to each other, as
well as the exploration of why andhow different sorts of people
engaged with politics and behaved politically. While such issues
are timeless, they hold a special importance for a society
experiencing rapid political and social change, like early modern
England.No one has done more to define these agendas for early
modern historians than John Walter. His work has been hugely
influential, and at its heart has been the analysis of the
political agency of ordinary people. The essays in thisvolume
engage with the central issues of Walter's work, ranging across the
politics of poverty, dearth and household, popular political
consciousness and practice more broadly, and religion and politics
during the English revolution. This outstanding collection,
bringing together some of the leading historians of this period
with some of the field's rising stars, will appeal to anyone
interested in the social, cultural and political history of early
modern England or issues of popular political consciousness and
behaviour more generally. MICHAEL J. BRADDICK is professor of
history at the University of Sheffield. PHIL WITHINGTON is
professor of history at the Universityof Sheffield. CONTRIBUTORS:
Michael J. Braddick, J. C. Davis, Amanda Flather, Steve Hindle,
Mark Knights, John Morrill, Alexandra Shepard, Paul Slack, Richard
M. Smith, Clodagh Tait, Keith Thomas, Phil Withington, Andy Wood,
Keith Wrightson.
This volume attempts to rediscover the richness of community in the
early modern world - through bringing together a range of
fascinating material on the wealth of interactions that operated in
the public sphere. Divided into three parts the book looks at: the
importance of place - ranging from the Parish, to communities of
crime, to the place of political culture, Community and Networks -
how individuals were bound into communities by religious,
professional and social networks the value of rhetoric in
generating community - from the King's English to the use of
'public' as a rhetorical community. Explores the many ways in which
people utilised communication, space, and symbols to constitute
communities in early modern England. Highly interdisciplinary -
incorporating literary material, history, religion, medical,
political and cultural histories together, will be of interest to
specialists, students and anyone concerned with the meaning and
practice of community, past and present. -- .
This path-breaking study explores the diverse and varied meanings of manhood in early modern England and their complex, and often contested, relationship with patriarchal principles. Using social, political and medical commentary, alongside evidence of social practice derived from court records, Dr Shepard argues that patriarchal ideology contained numerous contradictions, and that, while males were its primary beneficiaries, it was undermined and opposed by men as well as women.
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.
This path-breaking study explores the diverse and varied meanings
of manhood in early modern England and their complex, and often
contested, relationship with patriarchal principles. Using social,
political and medical commentary, alongside evidence of social
practice derived from court records, Dr Shepard argues that
patriarchal ideology contained numerous contradictions, and that,
while males were its primary beneficiaries, it was undermined and
opposed by men as well as women. Patriarchal concepts of manhood
existed in tension both with anti-patriarchal forms of resistance
and with alternative codes of manhood which were sometimes
primarily defined independently of patriarchal imperatives. As a
result the differences within each sex, as well as between them,
were intrinsic to the practice of patriarchy and the social
distribution of its dividends in early modern England.
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