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This book is a study of shame in English society in the two
centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and
powerful hold it had on contemporaries over the entire era. Using
insights drawn from the social sciences, the book investigates
multiple meanings and manifestations of shame in everyday lives and
across private and public domains, exploring the practice and
experience of shame in devotional life and family relations, amid
social networks, and in communities or the public at large. The
book pays close attention to variations and distinctive forms of
shame, while also uncovering recurring patterns, a spectrum ranging
from punitive, exclusionary and coercive shame through more
conciliatory, lenient and inclusive forms. Placing these divergent
forms in the context of the momentous social and cultural shifts
that unfolded over the course of the era, the book challenges
perceptions of the waning of shame in the transition from early
modern to modern times, arguing instead that whereas some modes of
shame diminished or disappeared, others remained vital, were
reformulated and vastly enhanced.
This book is a study of shame in English society in the two
centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and
powerful hold it had on contemporaries over the entire era. Using
insights drawn from the social sciences, the book investigates
multiple meanings and manifestations of shame in everyday lives and
across private and public domains, exploring the practice and
experience of shame in devotional life and family relations, amid
social networks, and in communities or the public at large. The
book pays close attention to variations and distinctive forms of
shame, while also uncovering recurring patterns, a spectrum ranging
from punitive, exclusionary and coercive shame through more
conciliatory, lenient and inclusive forms. Placing these divergent
forms in the context of the momentous social and cultural shifts
that unfolded over the course of the era, the book challenges
perceptions of the waning of shame in the transition from early
modern to modern times, arguing instead that whereas some modes of
shame diminished or disappeared, others remained vital, were
reformulated and vastly enhanced.
In preindustrial England, few people could expect to live past the
age of forty, so adolescence and youth represented a significant
proportion of an individual's life. This book by Ilana Krausman
Ben-Amos is the first to explore in depth the transition from
childhood to adulthood during this period, describing the
maturation processes of young people from the middle and lower
classes who spent their youth as apprentices, domestic servants, or
agricultural labourers. Previous historians of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries have assumed either that childhood was brief
and there was no adolescence, or that childhood was prolonged and
adolescence was maintained well into the mid-twenties. Ben-Amos
argues instead that while the maturation process was prolonged in
some cases, it was short and intense in others, and that variations
were due to complex mental, social and economic causes. Paying
close attention to differences introduced by gender and social and
geographical contexts, Ben-Amos focuses on numerous aspects of
youths' lives as they related to maturation.These include the
separation of adolescents from their parents, their working lives,
the acquisition of new skills, social relationships, religious
attitudes, sexual mores and norms, and leisure activities. Drawing
on urban and court records, as well as on contemporary
autobiographies, Ben-Amos vividly recreates the experience of
growing up in early modern England. Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos is a
lecturer in history at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
An innovative study of gift-giving, informal support and charity in
England between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos examines the adaptation and transformation
of varied forms of informal help, challenging long-held views and
assumptions about the decline of voluntary giving and personal
obligations in the transition from medieval to modern times.
Merging historical research with insights drawn from theories of
gift-giving, the book analyses practices of informal support within
varied social networks, associations and groups over the entire
period. It argues that the processes entailed in the Reformation,
state formation and the implementation of the poor laws, as well as
market and urban expansion, acted as powerful catalysts for many
forms of informal help. Within certain boundaries, the early modern
era witnessed the diversification, increase and invigoration,
rather than the demise, of gift-giving and informal support.
An innovative study of gift-giving, informal support and charity in
England between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos examines the adaptation and transformation
of varied forms of informal help, challenging long held views and
assumptions about the decline of voluntary giving and personal
obligations in the transition from medieval to modern times.
Merging historical research with insights drawn from theories of
gift-giving, the book analyses practices of informal support within
varied social networks, associations and groups over the entire
period. It argues that the processes entailed in the Reformation,
state formation and the implementation of the poor laws, as well as
market and urban expansion, acted as powerful catalysts for many
forms of informal help. Within certain boundaries, the early modern
era witnessed the diversification, increase and invigoration,
rather than the demise, of gift-giving and informal support.
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