John Taylor was a prolific and colorful popular writer whose work provides a unique picture of England from James I to the civil war through the eyes of a London waterman. This book is the first full study of the self-styled "King's Water-Poet," who carved out a pioneering role for himself as a "media celebrity" and became a national institution.
John Taylor was a prolific and colorful popular writer whose work provides a unique picture of England from James I to the civil war through the eyes ...
In this book Capp explores the nature and role of the navy during the English Revolution. After the king's execution in 1649, the navy's leadership was drastically remodelled, with republican and Puritan outsiders being brought into key positions. Capp examines the fleet's part in the political history of the period, both domestic and international, and its intervention in the critical months before the Restoration. He also surveys the navy's social life--the characteristics of the officers and seamen, volunteers and the press gang, as well as the mental world of the seventeenth-century...
In this book Capp explores the nature and role of the navy during the English Revolution. After the king's execution in 1649, the navy's leadership wa...
This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England sought to make the best of their lives in a society that excluded or marginalized them in almost every sphere. It argues that networks of close friends ('gossips') provided invaluable moral and practical support, helping them to shape their own lives and to play an active role in the affairs of the local community.
This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England sought to make the best of their lives in a society that exclude...
This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England sought to make the best of their lives in a society that excluded or marginalized them in almost every sphere. It argues that networks of close friends ("gossips") provided invaluable moral and practical support, helping them to shape their own lives and to play an active role in the affairs of the local community.
This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England sought to make the best of their lives in a society that exclude...
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.
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 p...
