The Ties That Bind: Siblings, Family, and Society in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780198823384 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Bernard Capp

Opis

The Ties that Bind is the first study to examine the place of brothers and sister in family life, and in society, in England during the Early Modern period. By exploring the bonds between contemporaries - such as Samuel Pepys - and their siblings, The Ties that Bind sheds new light on this familiar familial relationship.

Recenzje

This engaging study of early modern English siblings delves into private and public relationships and how they were affected by individual personalities facing the socioeconomic, religious, and political turmoil of the time. Capp draws on a lifetime of scholarship and an extensive array of sources, including geographies, letters, journals, plays, wills, depositions, and parish records [...] Summing Up: Highly recommended.

O autorze

After completing his masters and doctorate at the University of Oxford, Bernard Capp went on to teach at the University of Warwick for almost half a century. He has written books on a wide range of early modern English topics including the family, gender, radical movements in the English Revolution, the impact of puritan rule during the interregnum, astrological almanacs, popular literature, and the Cromwellian navy. His Festschrift, The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England, was published in 2010.