Commune, country and commonwealth : the people of Cirencester, 1117-1643 /

Commune, Country and Commonwealth' suggests that towns like Cirencester are a missing link connecting local and national history, in the immensely formative centuries from Magna Carta to the English Revolution. Focused on a town that made highly significant interventions in national constitutio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rollison, David, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, [2011]
Colección:Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ; v. 10.
Temas:
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
HISTORY > Modern > General.
Manners and customs
Politics and government
Social conditions
Cirencester (England) > History.
Cirencester (England) > Social conditions.
Cirencester (England) > Social life and customs.
Cirencester (England) > Politics and government.
England > Cirencester
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : commune at the crossroads
  • A domination of abbots
  • The crisis of the early fourteenth century
  • Classes of the commune before the Black Death
  • The struggle continues, 1335-99
  • A turning-point : the generation of 1400
  • Highpoint of vernacular religion : building a church, 1400-1548
  • Classes of the commune in 1522
  • Surviving Reformation : the rule of Robert Strange, 1539-70
  • 'The tyranny of infected members called papists' : the Strange regime under challenge, c. 1551-80
  • Phoenix arising : crises and growth, 1550-1650
  • Only the poor will be saved : the preacher and the artisans
  • Gentlemen and commons of the Seven Hundreds
  • Immigrants
  • The revival of the parish
  • 'More than freeholders ought to have voices' : parliamentarianism in one 'countrey', 1571-1643
  • 'Moments of decision', August 1642 to February 1643
  • Afterword : rural sunrise.

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