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Book Government and Society in Tudor and Stuart Norwich  1525 1675

Download or read book Government and Society in Tudor and Stuart Norwich 1525 1675 written by John F. Pound and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Palaces of Revolution  Life  Death and Art at the Stuart Court

Download or read book Palaces of Revolution Life Death and Art at the Stuart Court written by Simon Thurley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.

Book Godly Reformers and Their Opponents in Early Modern England

Download or read book Godly Reformers and Their Opponents in Early Modern England written by Matthew Reynolds and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close examination of the divided religious life of Norwich in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with wider implications for the country as a whole.

Book Tudor and Stuart Norwich

Download or read book Tudor and Stuart Norwich written by John Pound and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norwich was the largest and wealthiest provincial city in England throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. It was well-governed and justly famed for its contributions to England's economic development and for its far-sighted initiatives with poor relief, which served as guidelines for the great Elizabethan poor laws. As with other towns, Norwich suffered from economic depression in the early 16th century, especially of its textile trade, but this was offset by developing its functions as a major provincial centre and by attracting large numbers of Dutch and Walloon refugees.

Book The Cambridge Urban History of Britain

Download or read book The Cambridge Urban History of Britain written by Peter Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation.

Book Agnes Bowker s Cat

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Cressy
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 1999-11-19
  • ISBN : 0191542946
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Agnes Bowker s Cat written by David Cressy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-11-19 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What a world is this? It is marvelous, it is monstrous! I hear say there is a young woman, born in the town of Harborough, one Bowker, a butcher's daughter, which of late, God wot, is bought to bed of a cat, or have delivered a cat, or, if you will, is the mother of a cat! Oh God!" William Bullein - Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence (1578) David Cressy examines how the orderly, Protestant, and hierarchical society of post-Reformation England coped with the cultural challenges posed by beliefs and events outside the social norm. Drawing on local texts and narratives he reveals how a series of troubling and unorthodox happenings-bestiality and monstrous births, seduction and abortion, nakedness and cross-dressing, excommunication and irregular burial, iconoclasm and vandalism-disturbed the margins, cut across the grain, and set the authorities on edge.

Book Memory and Identity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781570034848
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Memory and Identity written by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edited volume contains ... papers that were presented at the 1997 international symposium 'Out of New Babylon: The Huguenots and their Diaspora', held at the College of Charleston, South Carolina"-- Library of Congress.

Book Penal Practice and Culture  1500   1900

Download or read book Penal Practice and Culture 1500 1900 written by Paul Griffiths and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English were punished in many different ways in the five centuries after 1500. This collection stretches from whipping to the gallows, and from the first houses of correction to penitentiaries. Punishment provides a striking way to examine the development of culture and society through time. These studies of penal practice explore violence, cruelty and shame, while offering challenging new perspectives on the timing of the decline of public punishment, the rise of imprisonment and reforms of the capital code.

Book A History of Doughty s Hospital  Norwich  1687 2009

Download or read book A History of Doughty s Hospital Norwich 1687 2009 written by Nigel Goose and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on primary resources and interviews with current residents and recent trustees, this well researched history traces the growth and progress of Doughty’s Hospital, an almshouse in Norwich, England, while examining the various philanthropic initiatives and social policies in Britain as a whole. From the hospital’s foundation at the bequest of the departed William Doughty in 1687 to its present condition, this record considers key aspects of the hospital’s development, including its residents, staff, financial management, and rules and regulations. With chapters on the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, this account makes a valuable contribution to the history of social welfare.

Book The Age of Elizabeth

    Book Details:
  • Author : D.M. Palliser
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-02-04
  • ISBN : 1317901819
  • Pages : 510 pages

Download or read book The Age of Elizabeth written by D.M. Palliser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This famous book was the first up-to-date survey of its field for a generation; even today, when work on early modern social history proliferates, it remains the only general economic history of the age. This second edition, substantially revised and expanded, is clear in outline, rich in detail, stressing continuity as well as change, balancing the glamour of privilege with the misery and privation of the poor, and dealing with the dark side of Tudor life -- vagabondage, starvation, superstition and cruelty -- as well as its heroic achievements.

Book The Tudor and Stuart Town 1530   1688

Download or read book The Tudor and Stuart Town 1530 1688 written by Jonathan Barry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tudor and Stuart Town brings together many of the most important articles in the field of urban history.

Book Lordship and Community

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cord Oestmann
  • Publisher : Boydell Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780851153513
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Lordship and Community written by Cord Oestmann and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The everyday lives of ordinary villagers, their attitudes and responses to their physical and spiritual surroundings, are brought into close focus: the impact of matters ranging from ecclesiastical reform to basic matters such as birth and death are revealed at all levels of village society, in particular the relationship of the Lestrange family to the village and its inhabitants.

Book Houses and Society in Norwich  1350 1660

Download or read book Houses and Society in Norwich 1350 1660 written by Chris King and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full archaeological study of the urban environment of Norwich when its power was at its height. Norwich was second only to London in size and economic significance from the late Middle Ages through to the mid-seventeenth century. This book brings together, for the first time, the rich archaeological evidence for urban households and domestic life in Norwich, using surviving buildings, excavated sites, and material culture. It offers a broad overview of the changing forms, construction and spatial organisation of urban houses during the period, ranging across the social spectrum from the large courtyard mansions occupied by members of the mercantile and civic elite, to the homes of the urban "middling sort" and the small two- and three-roomed cottages of the city's weavers andartisans. The so-called "age of transition" witnessed profound social and economic changes and religious and political upheavals, which Norwich, as a major provincial capital, experienced with particular force and intensity; domestic life was also transformed. The author examines the twin themes of continuity and change in the material world and the role of the domestic sphere in the expression and negotiation of shifting power relationships, economic structures and social identities in the medieval and early modern city.

Book Material London  ca  1600

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lena Cowen Orlin
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2012-10-19
  • ISBN : 0812208390
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Material London ca 1600 written by Lena Cowen Orlin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1500 and 1700, London grew from a minor national capital to the largest city in Europe. The defining period of growth was the period from 1550 to 1650, the midpoint of which coincided with the end of Elizabeth I's reign and the height of Shakespeare's theatrical career. In Material London, ca. 1600, Lena Cowen Orlin and a distinguished group of social, intellectual, urban, architectural, and agrarian historians, archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and literary critics explore the ideas, structures, and practices that distinguished London before the Great Fire, basing their investigations on the material traces in artifacts, playtexts, documents, graphic arts, and archaeological remains. In order to evoke "material London, ca. 1600," each scholar examines a different aspect of one of the great world cities at a critical moment in Western history. Several chapters give broad panoramic and authoritative views: what architectural forms characterized the built city around 1600; how the public theatre established its claim on the city; how London's citizens incorporated the new commercialism of their culture into their moral views. Other essays offer sharply focused studies: how Irish mantles were adopted as elite fashions in the hybrid culture of the court; how the city authorities clashed with the church hierarchy over the building of a small bookshop; how London figured in Ben Jonson's exploration of the role of the poet. Although all the authors situate the material world of early modern London—its objects, products, literatures, built environment, and economic practices—in its broader political and cultural contexts, provocative debates and exchanges remain both within and between the essays as to what constitutes "material London, ca. 1600."

Book Britain and the Dutch Revolt  1560 1700

Download or read book Britain and the Dutch Revolt 1560 1700 written by Hugh Dunthorne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the lasting impact of the Dutch Revolt on Britain's commercial, religious and political culture.

Book Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society  1485 1660

Download or read book Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society 1485 1660 written by Paul Whitfield White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines theatre and religion in provincial England from the early Tudors to 1660.

Book Universities and Schooling in Medieval Society

Download or read book Universities and Schooling in Medieval Society written by William James Courtenay and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10 papers in this volume examine university and pre-university education in the 14th to 16th centuries in Germany, Italy, France, and England. Particular attention recruitment, financial support, studying abroad, social status, and careers of graduates.