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Popular culture and political agency in early modern England and Ireland : essays in honour of John Walter
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An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of p...
An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of power, strategies of legitimation, and the languages of politics.
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- edited by Michael J. Braddick and Phil Withington
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- JSTOR ebooks
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2017
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781783271719, 1782049444, 178327171X, 9781782049449
- OCLC
- ocn974947639
- "This collection arises from a conference held to mark John Walter's 65th birthday at Christ's College, Cambridge, in March 2013"--Page xiii.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- John Walter and the social history of early modern England -- Contrasting susceptibility to famine in early fourteenth- and late sixteenth-century England: the significance of late medieval rural social structural and village governmental changes -- The politics of English political economy in the 1620s -- Provision, household management and the moral authority of wives and mothers in early modern England -- Popular senses of past time: dating events in the North Country, 1615-1631 -- Spectral lordship, popular memory and the boggart of Towneley Hall -- Self-image and public image in the career of a Jacobean magistrate: Sir John Newdigate in the Court of Star Chamber -- Gender, agency and religious change in early Stuart England -- "A Standard which can never fail us": the Golden Rule and the construction of a public transcript in early modern England -- Religion, anti-popery and corruption -- An 'Aristotelian moment': democracy in early modern England -- John Lilburne and political agency in revolutionary England -- An Irish Protestation? Oaths and the Confederation of Kilkenny -- "Whereat his wife tooke great greef & died": dying of sorrow and killing in anger in seventeenth-century Ireland -- Bibliography for John Walter