English Society, 1580-1680English Society, 1580-1680 paints a fascinating picture of society and social change in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It discusses both the enduring characteristics of society as well as the course of social change. The book emphasizes the wide variation in experience between different social groups and local communities, and the unevenness of the processes of transition, to build up an overall interpretation of continuity and change. |
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Preface | 9 |
Social relations in the local community | 39 |
Family formation | 66 |
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Adam Martindale Agricultural alehouses areas attitudes authority behaviour Cambridge Cambridgeshire cent child clergy Community in Peace contemporary cottagers County Durham crime crisis culture death degree demographic E. A. Wrigley economic enclosure England English society Essex evidence example existed farm farmers gentlemen gentry godly Henry Newcome History households husbandmen illegitimacy individual justices kinship labourers Lancashire land landlords later sixteenth Leicestershire less literacy living London Macfarlane marital marriage married match matter middling sort mobility Myddle neighbourliness neighbours opportunities parents parish Parkinson passim period poor popular population Poverty and Piety problem prosecutions puritan Ralph Josselin rank reformation relationships relative Richard Baxter riots rural servants seventeenth century significance sixteenth and seventeenth social groups social order Spufford tenants Thirsk Thomas tion towns urban village W. G. Hoskins wealth wife William William Perkins William Stout Wiltshire Wrightson and Levine yeomen young