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English society, 1580-1680
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ISBN: 0091451701 009145171X 9780091451707 9780091451714 Year: 1982 Publisher: London : Hutchinson,

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A rural society after the Black Death : Essex, 1350-1525
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ISBN: 0521382602 0521531276 0511522436 0511876807 9780521382601 Year: 1991 Volume: 18 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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A Rural Society after the Black Death is a study of rural social structure in the English county of Essex between 1350 and 1500. It seeks to understand how, in the population collapse after the Black Death (1348-1349), a particular economic environment affected ordinary people's lives in the areas of migration, marriage and employment, and also contributed to patterns of religious nonconformity, agrarian riots and unrest, and even rural housing. The period under scrutiny is often seen as a transitional era between 'medieval' and 'early-modern' England, but in the light of recent advances in English historical demography, this study suggests that there was more continuity than change in some critically important aspects of social structure in the region in question. Among the most important contributions of the book are its use of an unprecedentedly wide range of original manuscript records (estate and manorial records, taxation and criminal-court records, royal tenurial records, and the records of church courts, wills etc.) and its application of current quantitative and comparative demographic methods.

An age of transition? : economy and society in England in the later Middle Ages
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ISBN: 0198221665 9780198221661 019921526X 0191518824 1280759291 1429470127 9781429470124 9780191518829 9786610759293 6610759294 9780199215263 1383011206 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,

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Christopher Dyer examines the transition in the economy and society of England between 1250 and 1550. Using new sources of evidence, he demonstrates that important structural changes after 1350 built on the commercial growth of the 13th century.


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English catholics of parish and town 1558-1778 : a joint research project of the catholic record society and Wolverhampton university
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ISBN: 0902832182 9780902832183 Year: 1999 Volume: 5 Publisher: London Catholic Record Society

Society, politics, and culture : studies in early modern England
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ISBN: 0521257182 0521368774 0511560613 9780521257183 Year: 1986 Volume: *30 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In a number of related case-studies, this book traces the social political, and cultural factors making for conformity and obedience, and those promoting dissidence and revolt in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. The essays explore the significance of the concept of honour in forming the mentality of the ruling elites, the role of region, humanism, and law in promoting social and political solidarity, and the influences at work in the changing styles of political action as illustrated by the careers of four magnates.

When Gossips Meet : Women, Family, and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England
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ISBN: 1280757833 0191555088 1423757181 9780191555084 9780199273195 0199273197 9780199255986 0199255989 0199273197 0199255989 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK,

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This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England sought to make the best of their lives in a society that excluded or marginalized them in almost every sphere. It argues that networks of close friends ('gossips') provided invaluable moral and practical support, helping them to shape their own lives and to play an active role in the affairs of the local community. - ;This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England negotiated a patriarchal culture in which they were generally excluded, marginalized, or subordinated. It fo

Controlling misbehavior in England, 1370-1600
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ISBN: 0511582781 0511002858 9780511002854 9780511582783 0521621771 9780521621779 9780521894043 0521894042 Year: 1998 Volume: 34 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this important study, Professor McIntosh argues against the suggestion that social regulation was a distinctive feature of the decades around 1600, resulting from Puritanism. Instead, through an examination of 255 village and small-town communities distributed throughout England, Professor McIntosh demonstrates that concern with wrongdoing mounted gradually between 1370 and 1600. In an attempt to maintain good order and enforce ethical conduct, local leaders prosecuted people who slandered or quarrelled with their neighbours, engaged in sexual misdeeds, operated unruly alehouses, or refused to work. Professor McIntosh also explores who the offenders were as well as the factors that led to misbehaviour and shaped responses to it. More generally, Professor McIntosh sheds light on the transition from medieval to early modern patterns and succeeds here in opening up little-known sources and new research methods.

English reformations : religion, politics, and society under the Tudors
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ISBN: 0198221622 0198221630 9780198221630 9780198221623 Year: 1993 Publisher: Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press

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