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Frenzy In Early Modern England - Madness, Brain Disease And The Soul

by Philippa (University Of Cambridge) Carter

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 Now long-forgotten, the brain disease 'frenzy' was frightening, not just because it killed its sufferers, but because it changed them beyond recognition. This book offers a fresh perspective on early modern understandings of mental illness, and deepens and complicates our sense of what madness meant in this period.
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The Making Of An Imperial Polity - Civility And America In The Jacobean Metropolis

by Lauren (University Of Oxford) Working

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 Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and statesmen in early seventeenth-century England, this book offers new perspectives on Jacobean tastes and political culture, confronting the histories of colonialism and domestic political development. This title is also available as Open Access.
Public Opinion In Early Modern Scotland, C.1560â€“1707

by Karin (University Of Glasgow) Bowie

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 Explores the dynamics of opinion politics in the era of Reformation and Anglo-Scottish union - a period of religious and constitutional tension - through protestations, petitions, oaths, oral and written modes of public communication, offering a historicised understanding of public opinion and its rise in prominence.
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On Laudianism - Piety, Polemic And Politics During The Personal Rule Of Charles I

by Peter (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) Lake

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 Laudianism was both a way of being Christian and a political ideology. This definitive account of this intensely controversial movement explores how it helped cause the English civil war, but over the long term provided one of the visions of the national church, one that has been in contention to define 'Anglicanism' ever since.
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Gender And Policing In Early Modern England

by Jonah (University Of Cambridge) Miller

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 This new volume traces the history of gendered policing back to its emergence from the patriarchal household. It describes how a recognisable form of gendered policing emerged from practices of local government by patriarchs.
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Royal Justice And The Making Of The Tudor Commonwealth, 1485â€“1547

by Laura (University Of Oxford) Flannigan

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 The dawn of the Tudor regime is one of most recognisable periods of English history. This book sheds new light on the relationship between Crown and society by exploring the untouched archives for the Tudor monarchy's administration of justice, presenting a more holistic vision of politics and society in late medieval and early modern England.
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Protestant Bodies - Gesture In The English Reformation

by Arnold (University Of Durham) Hunt

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 What did early modern English Protestant worshippers think that they were doing when they bowed, knelt, or made the sign of the cross? Protestant Bodies explores the history of the English Reformation through the gestures of public worship and reestablishes their central role in early modern England.
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Friends, Neighbours, Sinners - Religious Difference And English Society, 1689â€“1750

by Carys (University Of Cambridge) Brown

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 Friends, Neighbours, Sinners shows the crucial role of religious difference in shaping English culture and society after 1689. By throwing into relief the cultural impact of England's unstable religious settlement, it highlights the centrality of religious difference to understanding social and cultural change after 1689.
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The Enclosure Of Knowledge - Books, Power And Agrarian Capitalism In Britain, 1660â€“1800

by James D. (University Of Exeter) Fisher

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 The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land, and wages. This study reveals that it was also about books, knowledge and expertise, challenging the dominant narrative of an agricultural 'enlightenment' and showing how farming books appropriated traditional knowledge in pre-industrial Britain.
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The Rule Of Manhood - Tyranny, Gender, And Classical Republicanism In England, 1603â€“1660

by Jamie A. Gianoutsos

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 Exploring the connection between concepts of power and masculinity in seventeenth-century England, this study shows how stories of ancient tyranny were deployed in dialogues concerning monarchy and rule between 1603 and 1660, and the extent to which these shaped English classical republican thought.
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Memory And The Dissolution Of The Monasteries In Early Modern England

by Harriet (University Of Cambridge) Lyon

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 The dissolution of the monasteries was recalled by individuals and communities alike as a seismic rupture in the religious, cultural, and socio-economic fabric of early modern England. This book offers a new perspective on the English Reformation, through an analysis of how the dissolution of the monasteries was remembered.
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England'S Second Reformation - The Battle For The Church Of England 1625â€“1662

by Anthony (University Of Sheffield) Milton

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 This compelling new history situates the religious upheavals of the civil war years within the broader history of the Church of England and demonstrates how, rather than a destructive aberration, this period is integral to (and indeed the climax of) England's post-Reformation history.
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On Laudianism - Piety, Polemic And Politics During The Personal Rule Of Charles I

by Peter (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) Lake

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 Laudianism was both a way of being Christian and a political ideology. This definitive account of this intensely controversial movement explores how it helped cause the English civil war, but over the long term provided one of the visions of the national church, one that has been in contention to define 'Anglicanism' ever since.
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Royal Justice And The Making Of The Tudor Commonwealth, 1485â€“1547

by Laura (University Of Oxford) Flannigan

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 The dawn of the Tudor regime is one of most recognisable periods of English history. This book sheds new light on the relationship between Crown and society by exploring the untouched archives for the Tudor monarchy's administration of justice, presenting a more holistic vision of politics and society in late medieval and early modern England.
The Settlement Of The Poor In England, C.1660â€“1780 - Law, Society, And State Formation

by Naomi (Lancaster University) Tadmor

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 In 1662, in the aftermath of the Restoration, parliament passed new legislation for the settlement and removal of the poor. This ground-breaking book explores the far-reaching consequences of the English settlement laws for society, culture, and the state from c.1660 to 1780.
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Gender And Policing In Early Modern England

by Jonah (University Of Cambridge) Miller

120,32€ + 10% CARD

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 This new volume traces the history of gendered policing back to its emergence from the patriarchal household. It describes how a recognisable form of gendered policing emerged from practices of local government by patriarchs.
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Friends, Neighbours, Sinners - Religious Difference And English Society, 1689-1750

by Carys Brown

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 Friends, Neighbours, Sinners shows the crucial role of religious difference in shaping English culture and society after 1689. By throwing into relief the cultural impact of England's unstable religious settlement, it highlights the centrality of religious difference to understanding social and cultural change after 1689.
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Friends, Neighbours, Sinners - Religious Difference And English Society, 1689-1750

by Carys Brown

34,44€ + 10% CARD
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Enclosure Of Knowledge - Books, Power And Agrarian Capitalism In Britain, 1660-1800

by James D. Fisher

34,44€ + 10% CARD
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Enclosure Of Knowledge - Books, Power And Agrarian Capitalism In Britain, 1660-1800

by James D. Fisher

34,44€ + 10% CARD
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Martial Law And English Laws, C.1500â€“C.1700

by John M. Collins

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 John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. Rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law was understood and practiced as one of the King's laws, and was a vital component of England's domestic and imperial legal order.
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The Enclosure Of Knowledge - Books, Power And Agrarian Capitalism In Britain, 1660â€“1800

by James D. (University Of Exeter) Fisher

110,85€ + 10% CARD

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 The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land, and wages. This study reveals that it was also about books, knowledge and expertise, challenging the dominant narrative of an agricultural 'enlightenment' and showing how farming books appropriated traditional knowledge in pre-industrial Britain.
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Friends, Neighbours, Sinners - Religious Difference And English Society, 1689â€“1750

by Carys (University Of Cambridge) Brown

110,85€ + 10% CARD

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 Friends, Neighbours, Sinners shows the crucial role of religious difference in shaping English culture and society after 1689. By throwing into relief the cultural impact of England's unstable religious settlement, it highlights the centrality of religious difference to understanding social and cultural change after 1689.
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Female Friends And The Making Of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650â€“1750

by Naomi (University Of Cambridge) Pullin

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 This original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750 highlights the unique ways in which adherence to the movement shaped women's lives, as well as the ways in which female Friends transformed seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious and political culture.
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