Devon Inventories of the 16th and 17th Centuries
Devon Inventories of the 16th and 17th Centuries

Author: Margaret Cash

Publisher: Devon and Cornwall Record Soci

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 9780901853134

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This volume transcribes 266 probate inventories from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Devon which survived the destruction of the Exeter Probate Registry in 1942. They tell us much about the lives and wealth of a range of Devon's early modern inhabitants, including yeomen, tradesman, and a few gentry, clergy and labourers, and will interest scholars of early modern social and economic history.

Consumption and the World of Goods
Consumption and the World of Goods

Author: John Brewer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 1136157603

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The study of past society in terms of what it consumes rather than what it produces is - relatively speaking - a new development. The focus on consumption changes the whole emphasis and structure of historical enquiry. While human beings usually work within a single trade or industry as producers, as, say, farmers or industrial workers, as consumers they are active in many different markets or networks. And while history written from a production viewpoint has, by chance or design, largely been centred on the work of men, consumption history helps to restore women o the mainstream. The history of consumption demands a wide range of skills. It calls upon the methods and techniques of many other disciplines, including archaeology, sociology, social and economic history, anthropology and art criticism. But it is not simply a melting-pot of techniques and skills, brought to bear on a past epoch. Its objectives amount to a new description of a past culture in its totality, as perceived through its patterns of consumption in goods and services. Consumption and the World of Goods is the first of three volumes to examine history from this perspective, and is a unique collaboration between twenty-six leading subject specialists from Europe and North America. The outcome is a new interpretation of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, one that shapes a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services.

The Great Rebuildings Of Tudor And Stuart England
The Great Rebuildings Of Tudor And Stuart England

Author: Colin Platt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1134218982

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Rural England's Great Rebuilding of 1570-1640, first identified by W.G. Hoskins in 1953, has been vigorously debated ever since. Some critics have re-dated it on a regional basis. Still more have seen Great Rebuildings around every corner, causing them to dismiss Hoskins's thesis. In this first full-length study of the rebuilding phenomenon, Colin Platt, an accomplished architectural and social historian, addresses these issues and presents a persuasive fresh assessment of the legacy of this revolution in housing design. Although accepting Hoskins's definition of a first Great Rebuilding, starting with the 1570s and ending in the devastations of the Civil War, the author argues convincingly for a more influential "second" Great Rebuilding after peace had returned.; In examining architectural change both in the buildings themselves and through the writings of discerning contemporaries, today's family house, whether in town or country, is shown to owe almost nothing to the Middle Ages. Instead, its origins lie in the increasingly sophisticated world of the Tudor and Jacobean courts, in the refined taste of returned travellers, and in a growing popular demand for personal privacy, unobtainable in houses of medieval plan.; This fascinating and challenging study of changing tastes marks an important contribution to our understanding of Tudor and Stuart society and as such will not only be welcomed by students and historians of early modern England but by the interested general reader.