Negotiating Exclusion in Early Modern England, 1550-1800

ISBN-13: 9780367338862 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 262 str.

Naomi Pullin; Kathryn Woods

Opis

This book examines how individuals and communities defined and negotiated the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion in England between 1550 and 1800. It shows that exclusion was a feature of everyday life for early modern men, women, and children.

Spis treści

Introduction: Approaching Early Modern Exclusion and Inclusion  Part 1: Exclusion and Social Relations  1. Domestic Exclusions: The Politics of the Household in Early Modern England  2. The Language of Exclusion: "Bastard" in Early Modern England  3. Women and Religious Coexistence in Eighteenth-Century England  4. Failed Friendship and the Negotiation of Exclusion in Eighteenth-Century Polite Society  Part 2: The Boundaries of Community  5. The Negotiation of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Westminster Infirmary, 1716‒1750  6. Defining the Boundaries of Community?: Experiences of Parochial Inclusion and Pregnancy Outside Wedlock in Early Modern England  7. Hunting, Sociability, and the Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Early Seventeenth-Century England  Part 3: Exclusions in Ritual, Law, and Bureaucracy  8. Failing at Patriarchy: Gender, Exclusion and Violence, 1560‒1640  9. They "Know as Much at Thirteen as If They Had Been Mid-Wives of Twenty Years Standing": Girls and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern England  10. Inscription and Political Exclusion in Early Modern England.  Afterword