Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland - Essays in Honour of John Walter

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.

List of contents

Introduction - Michael Braddick and Phil Withington
John Walter and the social history of early modern England - Keith Thomas
Contrasting susceptibility to famine in early fourteenth- and late sixteenth-century England: the significance of late medieval rural social structural and village governmental changes - Richard Smith
The politics of English political economy in the 1620s - Paul Slack
Provision, household management and the moral authority of wives and mothers in early modern England - Alexandra Shepard
Popular senses of past time: dating events in the North Country, 1615-1631 - Keith Wrightson
Spectral lordship, popular memory and the boggart of Towneley Hall - Andy Wood
Self-image and public image in the career of a Jacobean magistrate Sir John Newdigate in the Court of Star Chamber - Steve Hindle
Gender, agency and religious change in early Stuart England - Amanda J. Flather
'A Standard which can never fail us': the Golden Rule and the construction of a public transcript in early modern England - J.C. Davis
Religion, anti-popery and corruption - Mark Knights
An 'Aristotelian moment': democracy in early modern England - Phil Withington
John Lilburne and political agency in revolutionary England - Michael Braddick
An Irish Protestation? Oaths and the Confederation of Kilkenny - John Morrill
'Whereat his wife tooke great greef & died': dying of sorrow and killing in anger in seventeenth-century Ireland - Clodagh Tait

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Michael J. Braddick, Phil Withington

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Braddick, Michael J. Braddick, Amanda Flather, Amanda J. Flather, Alexandra Shepard, Phil Withington, Andy Wood
• Assisted by: Michael Braddick (Editor), Michael J. Braddick (Editor), Phil Withington (Editor), Phil (Contributor) Withington (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781783271719
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-171-9
• No. of pages: 329
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 644 g
• Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultur; Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Europäische Geschichte, 1500 bis heute, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte