Being Elizabethan : understanding Shakespeare's neighbors / Norman Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belief change.

History.

Faith.

Social aspects.

Conduct of life.

Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603.

Great Britain.

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

England.

Manners and customs.

England--Social conditions--16th century.

Social conditions.

England--Religious life and customs.

Conduct of life--History--16th century.

Faith--Social aspects--England--History--16th century.

Belief change--England--History--16th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 354 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2020.

Summary:

"This book has been in gestation since 1972. When I began studying history professionally, I had a question on my mind: I wanted to understand the relationship between belief and behavior. My lab was the Reformation, in which people openly talked about what they believed and formally altered those beliefs, marking the beginning of early modern culture. Since I began, my work has explored various approaches to this question, and this work is a synthesis of my varied inquests into Elizabethan society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Idealized lives : speak nothing but good of the dead

Divine social and political orders

Roles

Taming the natural child : preparations for living

Seeing the world anew

Reimagining England's past

Living under divine providence

Personal virtue

Moral economies

Creating the godly state

A generation of hearers

Elizabethan lives lived.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jones, Norman L. (Norman Leslie), 1951- author. Being Elizabethan

ISBN:

9781119168232

1119168236

9781119168249

1119168244

OCLC:

1081338227