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Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland
Essays in Honour of John Walter
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An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of power, strategies of legitimation,and the languages of politics.
One of the most notable currents in social, cultural and political historiography is the interrogation of the categories of 'elite' and 'popular' politics and their relationship to each other, as well as the exploration of why andhow different sorts of people engaged with politics and behaved politically. While such issues are timeless, they hold a special importance for a society experiencing rapid political and social change, like early modern England.No one has done more to define these agendas for early modern historians than John Walter. His work has been hugely influential, and at its heart has been the analysis of the political agency of ordinary people. The essays in thisvolume engage with the central issues of Walter's work, ranging across the politics of poverty, dearth and household, popular political consciousness and practice more broadly, and religion and politics during the English revolution. This outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, will appeal to anyone interested in the social, cultural and political history of early modern England or issues of popular political consciousness and behaviour more generally.
MICHAEL J. BRADDICK is professor of history at the University of Sheffield. PHIL WITHINGTON is professor of history at the Universityof Sheffield.
CONTRIBUTORS: Michael J. Braddick, J. C. Davis, Amanda Flather, Steve Hindle, Mark Knights, John Morrill, Alexandra Shepard, Paul Slack, Richard M. Smith, Clodagh Tait, Keith Thomas, Phil Withington, Andy Wood, Keith Wrightson.
One of the most notable currents in social, cultural and political historiography is the interrogation of the categories of 'elite' and 'popular' politics and their relationship to each other, as well as the exploration of why andhow different sorts of people engaged with politics and behaved politically. While such issues are timeless, they hold a special importance for a society experiencing rapid political and social change, like early modern England.No one has done more to define these agendas for early modern historians than John Walter. His work has been hugely influential, and at its heart has been the analysis of the political agency of ordinary people. The essays in thisvolume engage with the central issues of Walter's work, ranging across the politics of poverty, dearth and household, popular political consciousness and practice more broadly, and religion and politics during the English revolution. This outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, will appeal to anyone interested in the social, cultural and political history of early modern England or issues of popular political consciousness and behaviour more generally.
MICHAEL J. BRADDICK is professor of history at the University of Sheffield. PHIL WITHINGTON is professor of history at the Universityof Sheffield.
CONTRIBUTORS: Michael J. Braddick, J. C. Davis, Amanda Flather, Steve Hindle, Mark Knights, John Morrill, Alexandra Shepard, Paul Slack, Richard M. Smith, Clodagh Tait, Keith Thomas, Phil Withington, Andy Wood, Keith Wrightson.
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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List of Contributors
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Introduction
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1 John Walter and the Social History of Early Modern England
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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
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3 The politics of English political economy in the 1620s
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4 Provision, household management and the moral authority of wives and mothers in early modern England
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5 Popular senses of past time: dating events in the North Country, 1615–1631
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6 Spectral lordship, popular memory and the boggart of Towneley Hall
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7 Self-image and public image in the career of a Jacobean magistrate: Sir John Newdigate in the Court of Star Chamber
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8 Gender, agency and religious change in early Stuart England
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9 ‘A Standard which can never fail us’: the Golden Rule and the construction of a public transcript in early modern England
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10 Religion, anti-popery and corruption
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11 An ‘Aristotelian moment’: democracy in early modern England
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12 John Lilburne and political agency in revolutionary England
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13 An Irish Protestation? Oaths and the Confederation of Kilkenny
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14 ‘Whereat his wife tooke great greef & died’: dying of sorrow and killing in anger in seventeenth-century Ireland
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Bibliography for John Walter
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Index
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Tabula Gratulatoria
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Keywords for this book
Social history; Early Modern England; British Politics; Social Change; Political Language; English Revolution; Political Consciousness; English Society; John Walter; Historian; Historiography; Elite politics; Popular politics; British history
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
