Society and culture in early modern England / David Cressy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cressy, David.

Series:

Collected studies ; CS768.

Collected studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

England--Social life and customs--16th century.

England.

Manners and customs.

England--Social life and customs--17th century.

England--Social conditions--16th century.

Social conditions.

England--Social conditions--17th century.

England--Civilization--16th century.

Civilization.

England--Civilization--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2003.

Contents:

Part I Opportunities

I Describing the Social Order of Elizabethan and Stuart England (Literature and History 3. Winchester, 1976) 29

II Levels of Illiteracy in England, 1530-1730 (The Historical Journal 20 (1). Cambridge, 1977) 1

III Literacy in Context: Meaning and Measurement in Early Modern England (Consumption and the World of Goods, ed. John Brewer and Roy Porter. London, 1993) 305

IV Books as Totems in Seventeenth-Century England and New England (Libraries, Books and Culture 21 (1). Texas, 1986) 92

V Educational Opportunity in Tudor and Stuart England (History of Education Quarterly 16 (3). Pennsylvania, 1976) 301

VI Francis Bacon and the Advancement of Schooling (History of European Ideas 2 (1). Oxford, 1981) 65

VII A Drudgery of Schoolmasters: the Teaching Profession in Elizabethan and Stuart England (The Professions in Early Modern England, ed. Wilfrid Prest. Kent, 1987) 129

Part II Passages

VIII The Vast and Furious Ocean: The Passage to Puritan New England (New England Quarterly 57 (4). Massachusetts, 1984) 511

IX The Seasonality of Marriage in Old and New England (Journal of Interdisciplinary History 16 (1). Massachusetts, 1985) 1

X Kinship and Kin Interaction in Early Modern England (Past and Present 113. Oxford, 1986) 38

XI Purification, Thanksgiving and the Churching of Women in Post-Reformation England (Past and Present 141. Oxford, 1993) 106

XII Gender Trouble and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England (Journal of British Studies 35 (4). Chicago, 1996) 438

XIII Death and the Social Order: The Funerary Preferences of Elizabethan Gentlemen (Continuity and Change 5 (1). Cambridge, 1989) 99

XIV Binding the Nation: The Bonds of Association, 1584 and 1696 (Tudor Rule and Revolution: Essays for GR Elton, eds D. Guth and J. McKenna. Cambridge, 1982) 217

XV The Protestant Calendar and the Vocabulary of Celebration in Early Modern England (Journal of British Studies 29 (1). Chicago, 1990) 31.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

086078911X

OCLC:

51305708