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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rosemary Horrox; W M Ormrod |
| ISBN: | 0521783453 0521789540 9780521783453 9780521789547 |
| OCLC Number: | 68694200 |
| Description: | xi, 514 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : social structure and economic change in late medieval England / S.H. Rigby -- An age of deference / Peter Coss -- The enterprise of war / Michael Prestwich -- Order and law / Simon Walker -- Social mobility / Philippa C. Maddern -- Town life / Richard Britnell -- The land / Bruce M.S. Campbell -- A consumer economy / Maryanne Kowaleski -- Moving around / Wendy R. Childs -- Work and leisure / Mavis E. Mate -- Religious belief / Eamon Duffy -- A magic universe / Valerie I.J. Flint -- Renunciation / Janet Burton -- Ritual constructions of society / Charles Phythian-Adams -- Identities / Miri Rubin -- Life and death : the ages of man / P.J.P. Goldberg -- The wider world / Robin Frame -- Writing and reading / Paul Strohm -- Conclusion / Rosemary Horrox. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Rosemary Horrox and W. Mark Ormrod. |
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"Not only historians but also anthropologists and social scientists will find A Social History of England relevant and engaging...a vivid narrative about the subtle and complex ways that medieval people-from the thirteenth century until the eye of the reformation-accommodated change, ordered and re-ordered social relations, clung to old ways of thinking or altered them, created new values, negotiated economic and institutional constraints, and ultimately contributed to broader discussions of religion, nationality, individualism, ritual, civic ceremony, self identity, and community." Elaine Clark, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "This volume accomplishes its goals with great verve, no jargon, and considerable readability. Readers may want to pick and choose from their chapters, but they should be ready for surprises and would benefit from a cover-to-cover approach. It will reveal a social history in which social groups are no longer the main actors or principles of organization. Social relations, cultural structures, and social ideas now play the central role because they are conceived as being crucial to constituting human agents and their choices as well as their problems." David Gary Shaw, Canadian Journal of History "...a splendid volume." -Shannon McSheffrey, Historie sociale Read more...
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