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Book The Family Life of Ralph Josselin

Download or read book The Family Life of Ralph Josselin written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Family Life of Ralph Josselin  a Seventeenth century Clergyman

Download or read book The Family Life of Ralph Josselin a Seventeenth century Clergyman written by Alan Macfarlane and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1977 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Josselin, vicar of Earls Colne in Essex from 1641 to his death in 1683, kept for almost forty years a remarkably detailed account of his life--his mental and emotional world as well as his activities. Few diaries from this period afford such a rounded picture of a family from so many aspects. Alan Macfarlane, a historian and lecturer in social anthropology at Cambridge University, explores through the diary Josselin's life as a farmer, businessman, Puritan clergyman, neighbor, husband, and father, providing a unique view of seventeenth-century life from the inside.

Book The Diary of Ralph Josselin  1616 1683

Download or read book The Diary of Ralph Josselin 1616 1683 written by Ralph Josselin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1991-05-16 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josselin was vicar of Earls Colne, Essex, from 1641 until his death in 1683, and this is the intimate record of his ministry and his private doubts and triumphs as a Christian that give the Diary its shape. As a prosperous farmer, he also noted details of harvests, accounts, the weather and farming methods, which pieces together a picture of yeoman farming at that time. As father and husband he felt impelled to record a series of observations on family life that seem unique for this period. Recognized as one of the great seventeenth-century diaries, ranging over topics from sin and disease, dreams and money to millenarianism and the Civil War, this richly rewarding document reveals Josselin as a sympathetic and entirely human figure, and provides fascinating insights into the thought-world of seventeenth-century life.

Book The Ludic Self in Seventeenth Century English Literature

Download or read book The Ludic Self in Seventeenth Century English Literature written by Anna K. Nardo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in a historical analysis that sees the seventeenth century as a point of crisis in the formation of the western self, the author demonstrates how play helped mediate this crisis and how central texts of the period enact this mediation.

Book Puritan Family Life

Download or read book Puritan Family Life written by Judith S. Graham and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of a prominent Boston jurist and merchant whose nurturing relationship with his family contradicted the Puritan stereotype.

Book    The    Family Life of Ralph Josselin

Download or read book The Family Life of Ralph Josselin written by Alan Macfarlane and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writing the Family Narrative

Download or read book Writing the Family Narrative written by Lawrence P. Gouldrup and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987-08-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has ever tried to write a family history knows that it can be overwhelming. Writing the Family Narrative offers a clear and concise explanation of how to write your history in a way that entertains as well as informs. Using his experience teaching creative writing, Lawrence P. Gouldrup, has outlined a process that is tailored not for the serious novel writer, biographer, or essayist, but for the serious genealogist who wants to record his or her family story. He uses solid examples from both amateur and professional writers, making it easy for you to learn the process. The companion workbook to Writing the Family Narrative (ISBN #0916489418) goes further, taking you through each step of the writing process. You'll learn how to organize your records for writing, develop characters, include point of view, use dialogue, create an effective setting, and even edit and design your family history.

Book Life on the Tyne

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter D. Wright
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-05-06
  • ISBN : 1317105281
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Life on the Tyne written by Peter D. Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst the early modern period has long been recognized as witnessing a growth in trade and consumerism, the majority of studies to date have tended to focus upon London and southern England. In order to provide a more balanced understanding of the dynamics at work on a national level, this book explores the local economy and waterborne trades of Newcastle and the River Tyne, in North East England. Drawing upon a variety of primary sources - including parish records, probate inventories, Newcastle Exchequer port books and the previously unpublished diary of an apprentice hostman - none of which have been examined previously in this context, the study adds significantly to our understanding of the growing community in North East England. In particular, it underlines the expansion of a thriving middling class with an associated culture of consumption driving a rapid increase in the import, and often re-export of a wide range of luxury items of food, clothing and soft furnishings. As the coal trade and a flourishing general trade with London and other home and overseas ports grew, the book highlights the major impact upon the size and variety of work in the port, and the subsequent increasing size and complexity of the water trades community and its associated business networks.

Book The Diary of Samuel Rogers  1634 1638

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Rogers 1634 1638 written by Samuel Rogers and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Rogers began his diary before his twenty-first birthday. He expresses his intense loneliness as chaplain to the unsatisfactory Dennys of Bishops Stortford, and his efforts to obtain comfort from the nearby godly community - including visits to Wethersfield, where his father was lecturer.

Book Coming Over

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Cressy
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1987-10-30
  • ISBN : 9780521338509
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Coming Over written by David Cressy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-10-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming Over discusses the English migration to New England in the seventeenth century and shows the importance of English connections in the lives of American colonists. David Cressy reviews the information available to prospective migrants, the decisions they had to reach and the actions necessary before they could settle in America. English men and women moved to New England with a variety of motives, and in a multitude of circumstances. 'Puritanism', involving religious harassment in England and the desire to follow God's ordinances in America, was only one of many factors impelling people to move. Rather than developing in wilderness isolation, the society and culture of seventeenth-century New England were constantly shaped by their English roots. A two-way flow of correspondence, messages and information linked colonists to their homeland. Family duties, political sympathies, friendships, business and legal obligations all led to a continuing attachment across the Atlantic. In treating early America from a British perspective, as a part of English history, Professor Cressy provides us with many insights into the seventeenth century.

Book Individuals  Families  and Communities in Europe  1200 1800

Download or read book Individuals Families and Communities in Europe 1200 1800 written by Katherine A. Lynch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the family's function in western society from 1200-1800, first published in 2003.

Book Youth and Authority

Download or read book Youth and Authority written by Paul Griffiths and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seeking to portray a more positive image of young people in the 16th and 17th centuries, this study surveys attitudes and activities to demonstrate that youth had a creative presence, an identity, and a historical significance which was never fully explored.

Book Literacy in Everyday Life

Download or read book Literacy in Everyday Life written by Jeroen Blaak and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, historians of reading have concentrated on book ownership and trying to map out a history of who read what. The reading experience has been a subject more difficult to research. As has been pointed out before, egodocuments can be valuable sources in this case. Following this lead, Literacy in Everyday Life focuses upon four early modern Dutch diaries in which readers document their daily life and in which they recount their reading. In the analysis, other ways in which these four readers communicated are also addressed, especially speech and writing. This book therefore provides an insight into the possible uses of literacy and the interaction between the printed, written and spoken word in the early modern Dutch Republic.

Book The History of Childhood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lloyd deMause
  • Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
  • Release : 1995-06-01
  • ISBN : 1461631378
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book The History of Childhood written by Lloyd deMause and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: from the Foreword: Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others. Children, being physically unable to resist aggression, were the victims of forces over which they had no control, and they were abused in many imaginable and some almost unimaginable ways by way of expressing conscious or more commonly unconscious motives of their elders... The present volume abounds in evidence of all kinds, from all periods and peoples. The story is monotonously painful, but it is high time that it should be told and that it should be taken into account...

Book Land  Kinship and Life Cycle

Download or read book Land Kinship and Life Cycle written by Richard M. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on land transfer in English rural communities over the period 1250-1850.

Book Society and Culture in Early Modern England

Download or read book Society and Culture in Early Modern England written by David Cressy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The common theme of this selection of articles by David Cressy, published over the last twenty-five years, is the linkage of elite and popular culture and the participation of ordinary people in the central events of their age. The collection also traces a development in historical style and method, from quantitative applications using statistics to qualitative telling of tales. Seven essays under the heading 'Opportunities' explore problems of education, literacy and cultural attainment within the gendered and hierarchically ordered society of Elizabeth and Stuart England. Eight more under the heading 'Passages' examine social and cultural interactions, kinship, migration, community celebrations, and rituals in the life-cycle. The collection brings together a coherent body of research that is much cited in current scholarship and continues to shape the agenda for the social and cultural history of early modern England.

Book The Social Life of Money in the English Past

Download or read book The Social Life of Money in the English Past written by Deborah Valenze and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how people understood and used money from 1630 to 1800 in England. Deborah Valenze shows how money became involved in relations between people in ways that moved beyond what we understand as its purely economic functions.