4 Provision, household management and the moral authority of wives and mothers in early modern England

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. List of Abbreviations xiv
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 John Walter and the Social History of Early Modern England 15
9. 2 Contrasting susceptibility to famine in early fourteenth- and late sixteenth-century England: the significance of late medieval rural social structural and village governmental changes 35
10. 3 The politics of English political economy in the 1620s 55
11. 4 Provision, household management and the moral authority of wives and mothers in early modern England 73
12. 5 Popular senses of past time: dating events in the North Country, 1615–1631 91
13. 6 Spectral lordship, popular memory and the boggart of Towneley Hall 109
14. 7 Self-image and public image in the career of a Jacobean magistrate: Sir John Newdigate in the Court of Star Chamber 123
15. 8 Gender, agency and religious change in early Stuart England 145
16. 9 ‘A Standard which can never fail us’: the Golden Rule and the construction of a public transcript in early modern England 165
17. 10 Religion, anti-popery and corruption 181
18. 11 An ‘Aristotelian moment’: democracy in early modern England 203
19. 12 John Lilburne and political agency in revolutionary England 223
20. 13 An Irish Protestation? Oaths and the Confederation of Kilkenny 243
21. 14 ‘Whereat his wife tooke great greef & died’: dying of sorrow and killing in anger in seventeenth-century Ireland 267
22. Bibliography for John Walter 285
23. Index 291
24. Tabula Gratulatoria 311