Local identities in late medieval and early modern England / edited by Norman L. Jones and Daniel Woolf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Norman L. (Norman Leslie), 1951-

Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.)

Tittler, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communities--England--History.

Communities.

Community life--England--History.

Community life.

Group identity--England--History.

Group identity.

History.

England--Social conditions--1066-1485.

England.

Social conditions.

England--Social conditions--16th century.

England--Social conditions--17th century.

England--Social life and customs--1066-1485.

Manners and customs.

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

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

England--History, Local.

Local history.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvii, 256 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

It is axiomatic that English people came to understand their places in society differently by the late seventeenth century. This collection explores how that happened by examining how membership in communities was defined, and how individuals and corporate groups acted out their understanding of their places in society. Keith Wrightson's powerful study of how concepts of neighbourliness evolved as the economy changed is joined with Marjorie K. McIntosch's work on changing identity politics in market towns. The confusions over identity and community inherent in border towns are taken up by K. J. Kesselring, while David Dean examines the mnemonic devices used in the Elizabethan lottery to understand how people saw their communities. The overlapping worlds of London, court, and country are portrayed by Alexandra F. Johnston and Joseph P. Ward, while Catherine F. Patterson looks at the rhetoric of urban magistracy. The complexity of London's communities is explored by Shannon McSheffrey in her work on the liminal place of the late medieval clergy and sexual morality; by Ian W. Archer in his portrait of the charity of London widows; and by Paul Griffiths in a concluding chapter on the rhetorics of London's civil and religious identity, as seen in the discussions of growth that swirled around the building of Bridewell Hospital.

Contents:

Robert Tittler : an appreciation

The "decline of neighbourliness" revisited / Keith Wrightson

Whoring priests and godly citizens : law, morality, and clerical sexual misconduct in late medieval London / Shannon McSheffrey

Locals, outsiders, and identity in English market towns, 1290-1620 / Marjorie K. McIntosh

"Berwick is our England" : local and national identities in an Elizabethan border town / K.J. Kesselring

The alehousekeeper's revenge : London's role in the Reformation process in a Lancashire parish / Joseph P Ward

Sir Francis Knollys and his progeny : court and country in the Thames Valley / Alexandra F. Johnston

Married to the town : Francis Parlett's rhetoric of urban magistracy in early modern England / Catherine F. Patterson

The charity of London widows in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Ian W. Archer

Locality and self in the Elizabethan lottery of the 1560s / David Dean

Building Bridewell : London's self-images, 1550-1640 / Paul Griffiths.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230001237

0230001238

OCLC:

153554077