English Society 1580–1680English Society, 1580-1680 paints a fascinating picture of society and rural change in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Keith Wrightson discusses both the enduring characteristics of society as well as the course of social change, and emphasizes the wide variation in experience between different social groups and local communities. This is an excellent interpretation of English society, its continuity and its change. |
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Social relations in the local community | |
Family formation | |
Population and resources | |
Order | |
Learning and godliness | |
nation and locality | |
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Adam Martindale Agricultural alehouses areas authority behaviour Cambridge Cambridgeshire cent child clergy Community in Peace contemporary cottagers crime crisis cultural death degree demographic E. A. Wrigley early Stuart Ecclesiastical Elizabethan enclosure English society Essex evidence example farm father gentlemen gentry godly Harrison Hassell Smith Henry Newcome households husbandmen idem illegitimacy individual justices kinship labourers Lancashire land landlords Laslett later sixteenth Leicestershire less literacy living London Macfarlane marital marriage married match matters 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 riots rural servants seventeenth century significance sixteenth and seventeenth social groups social history social order Spufford structure tenants Thirsk Thomas towns urban village W. G. Hoskins wealth wife William Perkins William Stout Wiltshire Worcestershire Wrightson and Levine yeomen Yorkshire