Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, and the Social Order in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780198820468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str.

Alexandra Shepard

Opis

A fundamentally new account of the social order in early modern England: the first study to fully incorporate women, to offer comprehensive coverage of the range of social groups from the gentry to the labouring poor and across the life-cycle, and to represent regional variation.

Recenzje

[A] compelling new study ... This important book provides an essential bottom-up view of how ordinary men and women accounted for themselves in a rapidly changing world. Painstakingly researched and carefully argued, it should be read by anyone interested in the social and economic transformations of early modern England.

O autorze

Alexandra Shepard has published widely on the history of gender relations and social relations in early modern England, including a book entitled Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2003). She has also co-edited a number of essay collections, including most recently (with Steve Hindle and John Walter), Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England (2013).