A Social History of England, 1500-1750

📁 A Social History of England, 1500-1750

✍ Keith Wrightson 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previously little-studied, or wholly neglected, dimensions of the English past. It has also provided a fuller context for understanding more esta

A Social History of England, 1200-1500

📁 A Social History of England, 1200-1500

✍ Rosemary Horrox, W. Mark Ormrod 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

What was life really like in England in the later Middle Ages? This comprehensive introduction explores the full breadth of English life and society in the period 1200-1500. Opening with a survey of historiographical and demographic debates, the book then explores the central themes of later mediev

Social Change and Continuity: England 15

📁 Social Change and Continuity: England 1550-1750

✍ Barry Coward 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

Now revised in its second edition, this wide-ranging text outlines the major social changes that occurred in England in the two hundred years following the Reformation.

London: A Social and Cultural History, 1

📁 London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550-1750

✍ Robert O. Bucholz, Joseph P. Ward 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Between 1550 and 1750 London became the greatest city in Europe and one of the most vibrant economic and cultural centers in the world. This book is a history of London during this crucial period of its rise to world-wide prominence, during which it dominated the economic, political, social and cul

A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720

📁 A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720

✍ Barbara J. Shapiro 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Cornell University Press 🌐 English

Barbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, she convincingly demonstrates, originated not in natural science but in legal discourse. She follows the concept's evolution and diffusion across a variety of disciplines in early modern England, examining how the

A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720

📁 A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720

✍ Barbara J. Shapiro 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Cornell University Press 🌐 English

Barbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, she convincingly demonstrates, originated not in natural science but in legal discourse. She follows the concept's evolution and diffusion across a variety of disciplines in early modern England, examining how the