The social and cultural history of early modern England: New approaches and interpretations

2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Spicksley
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Social Historian

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. B. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Alphabetical Order ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Biographical Dictionary ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

Fuller’s History of the Worthies of England (1662), the first biographical dictionary in England, was published after his death. Fuller relied heavily on books and documents, but he also traveled widely, interviewing the most knowledgeable persons he could find and gaining knowledge first-hand of his country’s commodities, enterprises, buildings, and natural features. The work is organized on a county-by-county basis, and the notable individuals are listed in chronological, rather than alphabetical order. The result is a treatment of notable persons across many centuries in the context of the social, economic, political, and cultural contexts in which they lived. Fuller saw England as distinguished in many ways by industriousness and ingenuity as well as by a concern for the common good. The Worthies is one of the most original historical works in early modern England and is unexcelled as an analysis of the society that Fuller and his contemporaries knew.

scholarly journals Anatomical Theatres and the Teaching of Anatomy in Early Modern Spain

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Àlvar Martínez-Vidal ◽  
José Pardo-Tomás
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
New Work ◽  
Early Modern Spain ◽  
Profound Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Synthetic View

The knowledge and interpretation of the practice of anatomy in the Renaissance have recently undergone a profound change. To a large extent, this is the result of new directions taken in the social and cultural history of medicine since the late 1970s. In the last decade, several important works have been published, which are undeniable evidence of this historiographical change. However, there has as yet been no attempt to produce a synthetic view of all this new work, in which there is not always agreement. Such a synthesis would undoubtedly produce an interpretation of Renaissance anatomy very different from the traditional one.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Joseph Arthur Mann
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Musical Genres ◽  
Musical Propaganda

The introduction discusses the historiography of early modern England, the history of printing and censorship in that period, and the characteristics of the various musical genres used during that period as vehicles for propaganda. It shows that individuals across the social spectrum could access musical propaganda. It also shows that government censorship had a significant impact on print output. Finally, it provides an overview of the book’s content and exposes the author’s perspective on determining the propaganda designation of individual works.

Ferries in the Firthlands: Communications, Society and Culture along a Northern Scottish Rural Coast, c. 1600 to c. 1809

Rural History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID WORTHINGTON
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Community Construction ◽  
Tidal Water ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Topography ◽  
History Of

Abstract:This article identifies the social and cultural history of the early modern tidal water ferry, its skippers and passengers, by way of evidence from a northern Scottish rural coast. Evidence from the region's ‘firthlands’ reveals an amphibious communications network which transformed gradually prior to the early nineteenth century. The article argues that the defining local topography of coastal adjacency both influenced, and was influenced by, the people who lived their lives within and around the littoral. A system of short range communications over and between the estuaries and firths is highlighted from a Coastal History perspective, leading to the examination of a ‘pluriactive’ microhistorical space, linking south-east Sutherland, the eastern edges of Easter Ross and the Black Isle and the Nairnshire seaboard. The article thereby opens up possibilities for comparison with other peoples, places and periods, in which being ‘alongshore’ was integral to rural community construction, coalescence, dynamism and friction.

The Ends of Life and the Rise of Modernity

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-433
Author(s):  
Tim Harris
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Value System ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Methodological Problems

According to Keith Thomas in The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England, the social value system defining what constituted a life well lived changed dramatically in the period between the Reformation and the Enlightenment, becoming more individualistic and secular, as well as less aristocratic and hierarchical. Although Thomas' subtly argued and beautifully written study draws on a vast array of sources and demonstrates his vast expertise in the fields of early modern intellectual and cultural history, it does contain a number of conceptual and methodological problems that serve to undermine aspects of the argument. Ultimately, a more comparative approach would have proven beneficial, although it is certainly easier to make a case for secularization over time if one chooses to leave out religion.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
John Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Social History ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
English History ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The introduction argues for the importance of language-learning and multilingualism in the history of early modern England. English-speakers who ventured beyond Dover could not rely on English and had to become language-learners, while even at home English urban life was often multilingual. It brings together early modern concepts of linguistic ability with approaches from sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the social history of language in order to show how we can think about linguistic competence in a historical perspective. It demonstrates the importance of ‘questions of language’ to the social, cultural, religious, and political histories of early modern England, and to the question of England’s place in a rapidly expanding world. After an overview of the book’s structure, aims, and parameters, it closes by asking how taking a polyglot perspective might shift our understandings of early modern English history.

Indecorous Thinking

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Edmund Spenser ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
As If ◽  
Poetic Style

Indecorous Thinking is a study of artifice at its most conspicuous: it argues that early modern writers turned to figures of speech like simile, antithesis, and periphrasis as the instruments of a particular kind of thinking unique to the emergent field of vernacular poesie. The classical ideal of decorum described the absence of visible art as a crucial precondition for the rhetorical act of persuasion, the regulation of civilized communities, and the achievement of beauty. To speak well in early modern England, one spoke as if off-the-cuff. In readings of three major poets—Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth—this book argues that one of early modern literature’s richest contributions to the history of poetics is the idea that open art—artifice that rings out with the bells and whistles of ornamentation—celebrates the craft of poetry even as it expands the range of activities we tend to attribute to poetic form. Against the social and aesthetic demands of sprezzatura and celare artem, artifice at its most conspicuous asserts the value of a poetic style that does not conceal either the time or labor of its making.

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