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The Social World of Early Modern Westminster : Abbey, Court and Community, 1525-1640.
Early modern Westminster is familiar as the location of the Royal Court at Whitehall, parliament, the law courts and the emerging West End, yet it has never been studied in its own right. This book is the first study to provide an integrated picture of the town during this crucial period in its hist...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The social world of early modern Westminster; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Rediscovering early modern Westminster; Chapter 1: Henrician Westminster: corporate life in a time of change 1525-47; THE WESTMINSTER PARISHES BEFORE THE 1530S; ST MARGARET WESTMINSTER; ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS; THE HENRICIAN REVOLUTION IN WESTMINSTER; THE IMPACT ON THE PARISHES; SPATIAL CHANGE; RELIGIOUS CHANGE; Chapter 2: The Impact of the Reformation in Westminster 1547-62; THE EDWARDIAN REFORMATION.
- THE MARIAN REFORMATION AND ITS AFTERMATHCONCLUSION; Chapter 3: Town, cloister and Crown; POWER RELATIONS IN WESTMINSTER 1540-1612; THE GROWTH OF INSTABILITY IN EARLY STUART WESTMINSTER; THE STRUGGLE FOR INCORPORATION 1585-1636; 1585: AN ACT 'TO MAKE TRYALL WITH'; 1607: 'FOR AVOIDING OF OPPRESSION'; THE 1630S: WESTMINSTER AND THE REORGANIZATION OF METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT; Chapter 4: Parish elites; THE PARAMETERS OF PARISH OFFICE; THE EMERGENCE OF THE WESTMINSTER VESTRIES; PATRONAGE AND SOCIAL NETWORKS; ST MARTIN'S: THE CECIL NEXUS, THE KING'S WORKS AND GENTRIFICATION.
- ST MARGARET'S: BUREAUCRATS, VICTUALLERS AND ABBEY PATRONAGESTATUS AND OBLIGATION IN LOCAL SOCIETY; CONCLUSION; Chapter 5: The rise of a fashionable society; TOWNHOUSES; LODGINGS; SHOPPING; SIGHTSEEING; OUTDOOR RECREATIONS; EATING AND DRINKING; SERVANTS; CONCLUSION; Chapter 6: Space and urban identities; THE SUBURBAN INHERITANCE; THE CROWN AND THE SPATIAL ECONOMY OF WESTMINSTER; A COURTLY NEIGHBOURHOOD IN TRANSITION; COMMON LANDS: DEFINING COMMUNAL INTERESTS; PERAMBULATION: DEFINING PAROCHIAL SPACE; THE PARISH CHURCH AND SOCIAL IDENTITY; THE STRUGGLE FOR STATUS: SEATING AT ST MARTIN' S.
- PATROLLING THE POOR: SEATING AT ST MARGARET'SCONCLUSION; Chapter 7: The Westminster Court of Burgesses: neighbourhood, disorder and urban expansion; DISORDERED BEGINNINGS; THE BURGESSES AND LOCAL SOCIETY; THE COURT OF BURGESSES AT WORK; IMMIGRATION, REPUTATION AND URBAN EXPANSION; REGULATION OF PERSONAL CONDUCT: PUNISHMENT AND ARBITRATION; CONCLUSION: URBAN ANONYMITY AND THE ROLE OF THE COURT OF BURGESSES; Chapter 8: Poverty, plague and the politics of communal responsibility; POPULATION AND POVERTY; CHARITY, THE ABBEY AND THE CROWN; POVERTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURES.
- PAROCHIAL INITIATIVES: THE ANTECEDENTS OF WESTMINSTER'S POOR RATENEGOTIATING THE POOR RATE: A PROBLEM IN SOCIAL RELATIONS; PATTERNS OF CHARITY: THE LIVING AND THE DEAD; RECIPIENTS OF RELIEF; DISTRIBUTION OF RELIEF; PLAGUE, POVERTY AND THE COMMUNITY; THE CROWN AND ELITE RESPONSES TO PLAGUE; QUARANTINE AND THE COMMUNITY; THE FINANCIAL IMPACT OF PLAGUE; CONCLUSION; Chapter 9: Religious life and religious politics c.1558-1640; ST MARTIN'S AND THE GROWTH OF PROTESTANT LAY ACTIVISM; CLERGY AND LAITY; A CULTURE OF PREACHING; CATECHIZING AND COMMUNION.