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Author: John Chartres
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-02
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780521031561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten largely by her former research students, this book honours the varied and creative career of Joan Thirsk.
Author: John Broad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-04-22
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 113945188X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1540 and 1920 the English elite transformed the countryside and landscape by building up landed estates which were concentrated around their country houses. John Broad's study of the Verney family of Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire demonstrates two sides of that process. Charting the family's rise to wealth impelled by a strong dynastic imperative, Broad shows how the Verneys sought out heiress marriages to expand wealth and income. In parallel, he shows how the family managed its estates to maximize income and transformed three local village communities, creating a pattern of 'open' and 'closed' villages familiar to nineteenth-century commentators. Based on the formidable Verney family archive with its abundant correspondence, this book also examines the world of poor relief, farming families as well as strategies for estate expansion and social enhancement. It will appeal to anyone interested in the English countryside as a dynamic force in social and economic history.
Author: J. Bowen
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1909291633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and industrialization producing new challenges and opportunities for inhabitants of rural communities. However, our understanding of this period has been shaped by the compartmentalization of history into medieval and early-modern specialisms and by the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism and landlord-tenant relations. Inspired by the classic works of Tawney and Postan, this collection of essays examines their relevance to historians today, distinguishing between their contrasting approaches to the pre-industrial economy and exploring the development of agriculture and rural industry; changes in land and property rights; and competition over resources in the English countryside.
Author: S. Bending
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003-08-12
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0230508251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Writing of Rural England 1500-1800 documents and contextualizes the conflicting representations of rural life during a crucial period of social, economic and cultural change. It highlights the dialogues and tensions between agriculture and aesthetics, economics and morality, men and women, leisure and labour. By drawing on both canonical and marginal texts, it argues that early-modern writing not only reflected but played a part in constructing the cultural meanings of the English countryside with which we continue to live.
Author: Margaret Spufford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the peasants' reaction to the reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries, this volume looks at the changes in the church and considers the possibility of the lower classes founding dissenting churches.
Author: Felicity Heal
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1994-10-10
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 1349236403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is the first full analysis of the gentry in the early modern period since G.E.Mingay The Gentry: the Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class (1976). It offers a synthesis of the recent specialist work on this key social and political group, but will also provide a distinctive approach to its subjects through the use of the texts and artefacts by which the gentry sought to fashion themselves.
Author: John Broad
Publisher:
Published: 2004-04-22
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521829335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploration of the rise and fall of the dynastic Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire.
Author: Karen Jones
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781843832164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA large proportion of late medieval people, were accused of some kind of misdemeanour. This book studies gender and crime in late medieval England. It shows how charges against women differed from those against men, and how assumptions and fears about masculinity and femininity were reflected and reinforced by the local courts.
Author: J. Z. Titow
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jennifer Andersen
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780812217940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBooks and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. Chapters in the volume cover oral, scribal, and print cultures, examining the emergence of the "public spheres" of reading practices. Contributors, who include Christopher Grose, Ann Hughes, David Scott Kastan, Kathleen Lynch, William Sherman, and Peter Stallybrass, investigate interactions among publishers, texts, authors, and audience. They discuss the continuity of the written word and habits of mind in the world of print, the formation and differentiation of readerships, and the increasing influence of public opinion. The work demonstrates that early modern publications appeared in a wide variety of forms—from periodical literature to polemical pamphlets—and reflected the radical transformations occurring at the time in the dissemination of knowledge through the written word. These forms were far more ephemeral, and far more widely available, than modern stereotypes of writing from this period suggest.
