Faith, Hope and Charity

English Neighbourhoods, 1500-1640
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-84066-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Faith, Hope and Charity explores the interaction between social ideals and everyday experiences in Tudor and early Stuart neighbourhoods, drawing on a remarkably rich variety of hitherto largely unstudied sources. Focusing on local sites, where ordinary people lived their lives, Andy Wood deals with popular religion, gender relations, senses of locality and belonging, festivity, work, play, witchcraft, gossip, and reactions to dearth and disease. He thus brings a new clarity to understandings of the texture of communal relations in the historical past and highlights the particular characteristics of structural processes of inclusion and exclusion in the construction and experience of communities in early modern England. This engaging social history vividly captures what life would have been like in these communities, arguing that, even while early modern people were sure that the values of neighbourhood were dying, they continued to evoke and reassert those values.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wood, Andy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Charity Never Faileth: Defining Neighbourhood; 1.1 The Crisis of Neighbourhood; 1.2 Who Is My Neighbour?; 1.3 Charity and Neighbourhood; 1.4 Christian Neighbours; 2. Charity Suffereth Long: Neighbourhood and Community; 2.1 'A Nere Neyghbour is Better than a Farre Frende': The Social Logic of Neighbourhood; 2.2 Paternalism and the Reinforcement of Hierarchy; 2.3 Alcohol, Alehouses and Good Neighbourhood; 2.4 Festivity, Play and the Celebration of Neighbourhood; 3. Now Abideth Faith, Hope and Charity: Place Neighbourhood and People; 3.1 Public Worlds; 3.2 Nation, Country and Neighbourhood; 3.3 'A Packe of People'? Urban Neighbourhoods; 3.4 'A Kynde of Murdering my Neighbor': Disputes and their Settlement; 3.5 The Gender of Neighbourhood; 4. The Tongues of Men and Angels: Inclusion and Exclusion; 4.1 Newfangled Precisians: Neighbourhood and Religious Division; 4.2 Community Turned Inside Out: Witches, Gossips and Informers; 4.3 The Plight of Thomas Barebones: Settlement, Place and Neighbourhood; 4.4 The Better Sort and the Domination of Parish Politics; 4.5 Robin Starveling and the Destroying Angel: Famine, Disease and the Limits of Neighbourhood; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Wood, Andy
Andy Wood is Professor of Social History at the University of Durham. The author of five books, including The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England (2007) and The Memory of the People: Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England (2013) which won the American Historical Association's Leo Gershoy Award in 2014, his current research focuses on the study of authority and resistance in England from 1500-1640.