Societies, cultures, and kinship, 1580-1850 : cultural provinces and English local history / edited and introduced by Charles Phythian-Adams ; with contributions by Mary Carter, Evelyn Lord, Anne Mitson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phythian-Adams, Charles.

Carter, Mary, 1934-

Lord, Evelyn.

Mitson, Anne.

Series:

Collected papers in English local history Societies, cultures, and kinship, 1580-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinship--England.

Kinship.

England--History, Local--Methodology.

England.

England--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 1996, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work maps the cultural and physical divisions of medieval England. It concentrates on the level of hierarchy immediately above individual local societies, using detailed case studies of networks of linked communities in the East Midlands, the South and East Anglia. The societies studied are respectively on the periphery of a cultural province, central to another such province and linked closely to a major urban centre. The text is a synthesis of modern continental historical scholarship, social anthropological and geographical techniques, and English medieval history. Included in the inve

Contents:

Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Editorial foreword; I: Introduction: an Agenda for English Local History; II: The Significance of Kinship Networks in the Seventeenth Century: South-West Nottinghamshire; III: Town or Urban Society? St Ives in Huntingdonshire, 1630-1740; IV: Communities of Common Interest: the Social Landscape of South-East Surrey, 1750-1850; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-70979-8

9786612709791

0-567-64736-6

OCLC:

813220673