1 Introduction
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Chris R. Kyle
Abstract
This chapter sets up the volume by exploring the historiography relating to the issues that provide its focus: the relationship between ‘centre’ and ‘locality’ in the early modern period, and the role of communication – including both print culture and manuscript transmission – within contemporary society. This involves reflecting on ideas and arguments regarding the ‘county community’, and on how historians have tackled crucial issues like the ‘social depth’ of politics, state formation and developments in parliamentary politics, as well as the print revolution, but it also involves suggesting that social and political historians have only rarely found ways of entering into a productive dialogue with each other on these crucial issues. Finally, it highlights the fruitful ways in which the chapters use explorations of communicative practices in order to rethink not just relations between centre and locality but also the ways in such terms ought to be conceptualised.
Abstract
This chapter sets up the volume by exploring the historiography relating to the issues that provide its focus: the relationship between ‘centre’ and ‘locality’ in the early modern period, and the role of communication – including both print culture and manuscript transmission – within contemporary society. This involves reflecting on ideas and arguments regarding the ‘county community’, and on how historians have tackled crucial issues like the ‘social depth’ of politics, state formation and developments in parliamentary politics, as well as the print revolution, but it also involves suggesting that social and political historians have only rarely found ways of entering into a productive dialogue with each other on these crucial issues. Finally, it highlights the fruitful ways in which the chapters use explorations of communicative practices in order to rethink not just relations between centre and locality but also the ways in such terms ought to be conceptualised.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Notes on contributors x
- Abbreviations and conventions xii
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 ‘A dog, a butcher, and a puritan’ 22
- 3 The Lord Admiral, the Parliament-men and the narrow seas, 1625–27 44
- 4 Space, place and Laudianism in early Stuart Ipswich 66
- 5 ‘Written according to my usual way’ 94
- 6 Diligent enquiries and perfect accounts 116
- 7 Provincial ‘Levellers’ and the coming of the regicide in the south-west 133
- 8 Sovereignty by the book 157
- 9 Local expertise in hostile territory 174
- 10 News and the personal letter, or the news education of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon, 1660–71 193
- 11 The news out of Newgate after the 1715 Jacobite rebellion 209
- Index 229
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Notes on contributors x
- Abbreviations and conventions xii
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 ‘A dog, a butcher, and a puritan’ 22
- 3 The Lord Admiral, the Parliament-men and the narrow seas, 1625–27 44
- 4 Space, place and Laudianism in early Stuart Ipswich 66
- 5 ‘Written according to my usual way’ 94
- 6 Diligent enquiries and perfect accounts 116
- 7 Provincial ‘Levellers’ and the coming of the regicide in the south-west 133
- 8 Sovereignty by the book 157
- 9 Local expertise in hostile territory 174
- 10 News and the personal letter, or the news education of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon, 1660–71 193
- 11 The news out of Newgate after the 1715 Jacobite rebellion 209
- Index 229
