Communities in Early Modern England
Networks, Place, Rhetoric
Published on 21. December 2000
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-7190-5476-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume attempts to rediscover the richness of community in the early modern world - through bringing together a range of fascinating material on the wealth of interactions that operated in the public sphere. Divided into three parts the book looks at:
the importance of place - ranging from the Parish, to communities of crime, to the place of political culture,
Community and Networks - how individuals were bound into communities by religious, professional and social networks
the value of rhetoric in generating community - from the King's English to the use of 'public' as a rhetorical community. Explores the many ways in which people utilised communication, space, and symbols to constitute communities in early modern England. Highly interdisciplinary - incorporating literary material, history, religion, medical, political and cultural histories together, will be of interest to specialists, students and anyone concerned with the meaning and practice of community, past and present. -- .
the importance of place - ranging from the Parish, to communities of crime, to the place of political culture,
Community and Networks - how individuals were bound into communities by religious, professional and social networks
the value of rhetoric in generating community - from the King's English to the use of 'public' as a rhetorical community. Explores the many ways in which people utilised communication, space, and symbols to constitute communities in early modern England. Highly interdisciplinary - incorporating literary material, history, religion, medical, political and cultural histories together, will be of interest to specialists, students and anyone concerned with the meaning and practice of community, past and present. -- .
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-5476-1 (9780719054761)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Alexandra Shepard is Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex Phil Withington is Lecturer in Cultural History at the University of Aberdeen
Content
Part 1 Networks: reconstructing manuscript networks - the textual transactions of Sir Stephen Powle; defensive tactics - networking by female medical practitioners in early modern London; William Blundell and the networks of Catholic dissent in post-Reformation England; social networks in Restoration London - the evidence from Samuel Pepys' diary. Part 2 Place: a sense of place? - becoming and belonging in the rural parish, 1550-1650; overlapping circles - imagining criminal communities in London, 1545-1645; citizens, community and political culture in Restoration England; from a "light cloak" to the "iron cage" - an essay on historical changes in the relationship between community and individualism. Part 3 Rhetoric: rhetorical constructions of a national community - the role of the King's English in mid-Tudor writing; the "public" as a rhetorical community in early modern England; contesting communities? - town and gown in Cambridge, c.1560-1640; readers, correspondents and communities - John Houghton's "A collection for improvement of husbandrry and trade" (1692-1703).