Churchwardens' Accounts of Cratfield, 1640-1660

ISBN-13: 9780851157597 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 189 str.

L. A. Botelho; L. a. Botelho

Opis

The rare set of churchwardens' accounts edited here offers a detailed view of life in an East Anglian village during the English civil wars. Their survival is unusual in a time which is considered by many to have experienced a wide-spread breakdown of local government, and they reveal many aspects of early modern life: of particular interest are the costs of war in a village which committed both men and money to Parliament's cause. The introduction recreates the demographic, economic and social structure of early modern Cratfield, and the volume is completed with a number of appendices, including short biographies of those named in the accounts.LYNN A. BOTELHO is in the Department of History at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.