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Londinopolis : essays in the cultural and social history of early modern London / edited by Paul Griffiths and Mark S.R. Jenner.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
- Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- London (England)--Social life and customs.
- London (England).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Londinopolis
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- In this history of early modern London, the essays range widely, covering the themes of polis and the police, gender and sexuality, space and place, and material culture and consumption.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Polis and Police. Popular politics in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Ian W. Archer ; Reordering rituals : ceremony and the parish, 1520-1640 / Michael Berlin ; Thief-takers and their clients in later Stuart London / Tim Wales
- pt. 2. Gender and sexuality. The pattern of sexual immorality in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London / Faramerz Dabhoiwala ; Wives and marital 'rights' in the Court of Exchequer in the early eighteenth century / Margaret R. Hunt ; 'The freedom of the streets' : women and social space, 1560-1640 / Laura Gowing
- pt. 3. Senses of space and place. Skirting the city? : disease, social change and divided households in the seventeenth century / Margaret Pelling ; Politics made visible : order, residence and uniformity in Cheapside, 1600-45 / Paul Griffiths ; The poor among the rich : paupers and the parish in the West End, 1600-1724 / Jeremy Boulton
- pt. 4. Material culture and consumption. 'Great quantities of gooseberry pye and baked clod of beef'" : victualling and eating out in early modern London / Sara Pennell ; From conduit community to commercial network? : water in London, 1500-1725 / Mark S. R. Jenner.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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