Age and Authority in Early Modern England
Author: Keith Thomas
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 54
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Author: Keith Thomas
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 54
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adam Fox
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1996-08-16
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1349248347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection is concerned with the articulation, mediation and reception of authority; the preoccupations and aspirations of both governors and governed in early modern England. It explores the nature of authority and the cultural and social experiences of all social groups, especially insubordinates. These essays probe in depth the ways in which young people responded to adults, women to men, workers to masters, and the 'common sort' to their 'betters'. Early modern people were not passive receptacles of principles of authority as communicated in, for example, sermons, statutes and legal process. They actively contributed to the process of government, thereby exposing its strengths, weaknesses and ambiguities. In discussing these issues the contributors provide fresh points of entry to a period of significant cultural and socio-economic change.
Author: Paul Griffiths
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780198204756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn seeking to portray a more positive image of young people in the 16th and 17th centuries, this study surveys attitudes and activities to demonstrate that youth had a creative presence, an identity, and a historical significance which was never fully explored.
Author: Garthine Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-06-12
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1139435116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. Dr Walker's innovative approach demonstrates that, contrary to received opinion, the law was often structured so as to make the treatment of women and men before the courts incommensurable. For the first time, early modern criminality is explored in terms of masculinity as well as femininity. Illuminating the interactions between gender and other categories such as class and civil war have implications not merely for the historiography of crime but for the social history of early modern England as a whole. This study therefore goes beyond conventional studies, and challenges hitherto accepted views of social interaction in the period.
Author: Michael J. Braddick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-20
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780521651639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA volume of new essays on the dynamics of power in early modern societies.
Author: Michael J. Braddick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-12-07
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780521789554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the development of the English state during the long seventeenth century, emphasising the impersonal forces which shape the uses of political power, rather than the purposeful actions of individuals or groups. It is a study of state formation rather than of state building. The author's approach does not however rule out the possibility of discerning patterns in the development of the state, and a coherent account emerges which offers some alternative answers to relatively well-established questions. In particular, it is argued that the development of the state in this period was shaped in important ways by social interests - particularly those of class, gender and age. It is also argued that this period saw significant changes in the form and functioning of the state which were, in some sense, modernising. The book therefore offers a narrative of the development of the state in the aftermath of revisionism.
Author: Christopher Martin
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781558499720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Explores the representation of old age in Elizabethan England."--BLACKWELL'S.
Author: Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780300055979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an investigation of youth and adolescence in pre-industrial England. It concentrates on young people from the middle or lower groups of society, who, between 1500 and 1800, left home to work as apprentices, agricultural labourers or in domestic service. Drawing on municipal, ecclesiastical and parish records, and over 70 autobiographies, Ben-Amos focusses on aspects of youth as they related to maturation: the separation of adolescents from their parents; their working lives and relationships with their employers or masters and mistresses; the relative independence and autonomy exercised by younger women; the role of the young in religious affairs; and the question of whether there was such as thing as a youth subculture.
Author: Kevin M. Sharpe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-07-10
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521824347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts in early modern England.
Author: Andrea Immel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1135473323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of 14 original essays by historians and literary scholars explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800. The collection aims to reposition childhood as a compelling presence in early modern imagination--a ready emblem of innocence, mischief, and playfulness. The essays offer a wide-ranging basis for reconceptualizing the development of a separate literature for children as central to evolving early modern concepts of human development and socialization. Among the topics covered are constructs of literacy as revealed by the figure of Goody Two Shoes, notions of pedagogy and academic standards, a reception study of children's reading based on book purchases made by Rugby school boys in the late eighteenth-century, an analysis of the first international best-seller for children, the abbe Pluche's Spectacle de la nature, and the commodification of child performers in Jacobean comedies.