Early Modern London
Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London
... The author addresses this imbalance by outlining how women of London’s middling sorts and labouring poor could acquire credit and gain honest reputations, specifically through their work and sociability. Included by ...
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Early Modern London Theatres
... the Early Modern London Theatres database, assess and compare the methodological value of any three types of original document for the writing of theatre ...the early modern ...
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Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London
... in early modern London, as well as bringing together the different significations of ‘pamphlet’ – physical, economic, ideological, and ...the early modern pamphlet trade don’t find it – ...
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Sons, apprentices and successors in late medieval and early modern London: the transmission of skills and work opportunities
... in early modern ...reconstituting London families and households and examining their dynamics, and an important aspect of this is how they reproduced themselves over time, both biologically and ...of ...
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The negotiation and fashioning of female honour in early modern London
... Walker eds., Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modem England London, University of London Press, 1994, pp.. Gowing, L., Domestic Dangers: Women, TVordsand Sex in Early Modern London O[r] ...
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Burial of the plague dead in early modern London
... This brief survey of plague burial in early modern London prompts two queries or speculations. The first concerns the attitude of city government. The New Churchyard was established in 1569, and ...
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Families and households in early modern London, c 1550 1640
... Elliott's early seventeenth-century sample of marriages by licence had been married before; in Stepney at the same period, 45 per cent of all marriages were remarriages for one or both ...65 London ...
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Medical care in early modern Venice
... Four volumes of the Necrologi have been sampled for this study: 1645, 1696, 1746 and 1796. 27 Each of these volumes follows the Venetian year and runs from March to February. The sampled years have been chosen with ...
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Women and the Performance of Libel in Early Modern Devon
... in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); Anthony Fletcher Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England 1500–1800 (London: Yale University Press, 1995); Maids ...
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The Italian London of John North: Cultural Contact and Linguistic Encounter in Early Modern England
... of London to request that these belligerent city swordsmen be examined, punished, and bound over to show good behavior toward Bonetti, so that “without impediment he maie teache the use of weappons within his ...
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London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800
... Thus London Lives is a damning account of a metropolitan social policy which repeatedly failed the poor, and criminalised them through a raft of measures which targeted activities which the poor often resorted to ...
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Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
... individual now had to function, the fact of being no longer married, with all that this implied in terms of moral reputation, relationships to one's kin, relationships to property-ownership, and even one's potential as a ...
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EDUCATION AND THE EARLY MODERN ENGLISH SEPARATISTS
... investigating in detail the evidence relating to the early modern English Separatists and their attitudes to education. Interest in, and.. It has sometimes erroneously b[r] ...
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Early Modern Guildhalls : Habitus in transition?
... These visual and structural changes require careful consideration. Rather than simply focussing attention on the tripartite arrangement, visual cues such as the coats of arms painted on the wainscot and furniture of the ...
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To Early Modern Catholic Lay People
... In this sense, all lay Christians, not just clergy members, have, by baptismal right, the authority to read and interpret Scripture. Finally, in Luther’s third wall, readers can be conv[r] ...
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Researching memory in early modern studies
... opportunity to establish a kind of contact with the anterior and the authentic. The particular conjunction of emotional registers involved in these festivals points up how they depend for their success on mapping ...
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Pray in Early Modern English drama
... Our analyses of data in the Drama Corpus in Sections 4 to 7 have revealed some new insights into the use of the discourse marker pray and its related forms, as well as adding some confirmation to what has been noted in ...
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The human face of early modern England
... 1648), pp.102 and 103-4. In this period, as earlier, deafness and dumbness were perceived to be absolutely linked. René Descartes assumed this in Discourse on the Method when he wrote of ‘men born deaf and dumb’ who ...
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Plague, print and providence in early seventeenth century London.
... from London dies at a country inn, no one is willing to bury his body until a tinker comes along who happily takes forty shillings for the work, and then finds seven pounds on his ...
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Protestant Evangelicals and Addiction in Early Modern English
... the early modern ...a modern reader might expect to find from addiction narratives. In early modern English, ‘addiction’ meant something quite distinct from the modern, ...
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