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. |
Contents
| 9 | |
Preface | 18 |
Introduction | 20 |
Part One Enduring structures | 23 |
Part Two The course of social change | 127 |
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Adam Martindale Agricultural alehouses areas authority behaviour Cambridge Cambridgeshire cent clergy Community in Peace contemporary cottagers crime crisis culture death degree demographic E. A. Wrigley Early Modern England early Stuart Elizabethan enclosure English society Essex evidence example farm gentlemen gentry godly Hassell Smith Henry Newcome husbandmen idem illegitimacy individual justices kinship labourers Lancashire land landlords Laslett later sixteenth Leicestershire less literacy living London Macfarlane marital marriage married match middling sort mobility Myddle neighbourliness neighbours opportunities Oxford parents parish Parkinson passim period poor popular population Poverty and Piety problem prosecutions puritan Ralph Josselin rank reformation relationships Richard Baxter riots rural servants seventeenth century significance sixteenth and seventeenth social groups social history social order Spufford structure tenants Thirsk Thomas tion towns Tudor urban village W. G. Hoskins wealth wife William Perkins William Stout Wiltshire Wrightson and Levine yeomen