Household Servants in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor R. C. Richardson is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Winchester Klappentext This lively socio-cultural history examines household service, one of the largest, multi-layered, mobile and most indispensable sectors of employment in early modern England. Drawing on a wide variety of cultural sources including literary depiction and self-representation, this study to brings into sharp focus individual life stories of Britain's servant class. Exploring the relationships between servants and between employers and servants; it depicts the differences between patterns of employment in London and the provinces, and the juxtaposition of servant vulnerability and servant 'power'. This book places new importance on the household servant as a major agent in cultural change and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of servitude in London and the provinces in the two centuries following the Reformation. Zusammenfassung Using a wide variety of sources this lively socio-cultural history examines household service! one of the largest! most multi-layered! most mobile and most indispensable sectors of employment in early modern England -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceContentsList if Illustrations1. Studying household servants2. The instabilities of representation: household servants in early modern drama3. Self -representations of servants4. Employing and serving5. Housing, diet, dress, welfare, recreation and education6. Servants, godly households and social engineering7. Order and disorder in the household8. The 'servant problem'9. Servants and the law10. Early modern servants in perspectiveBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: R Richardson, R C Richardson, R. Richardson, R. C. Richardson, R.c. Richardson
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2010
• EAN: 9780719068959
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6895-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; England, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600