Book Description
Provides a systematic analysis of various aspects of women's lives between 1500 and 1800, concentrating on detailed research into specific groups of women where it has been possible to build up a picture in some detail.
Author : Mary Prior
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1134897294
Provides a systematic analysis of various aspects of women's lives between 1500 and 1800, concentrating on detailed research into specific groups of women where it has been possible to build up a picture in some detail.
Author : Mary Prior
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1134897308
Provides a systematic analysis of various aspects of women's lives between 1500 and 1800, concentrating on detailed research into specific groups of women where it has been possible to build up a picture in some detail.
Author : Anthony Fletcher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300065312
During the early modern period, men and women in England lived their lives within a social and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy - the social and cultural dominance of the male - has long been a feature of western civilization, and this work attempts to provide a portrait of the origins and operation of the system over a long stretch of the English past.
Author : Mavis E. Mate
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 1999-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521587334
Written primarily for undergraduates, this book weighs the evidence for and against the various theories relating to the position of women at different time periods. Professor Mate examines the major issues deciding the position of women in medieval English society, asking questions such as, did women enjoy a rough equality in the Anglo-Saxon period that they subsequently lost? Did queens at certain periods exercise real political clout or was their power limited to questions of patronage? Did women's participation in the economy grant them considerable independence and allow them to postpone or delay marriage? Professor Mate also demonstrates that class, as well as gender, was very important in determining age at marriage and opportunities for power and influence. Although some women at certain times did make short-term gains, Professor Mate challenges the dominant view that major transformations in women's position occurred in the century after the Black Death.
Author : Mary O'Dowd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 131787725X
The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women’s lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800. This was a time of considerable change in Ireland as English colonisation, religious reform and urbanisation transformed society on the island. Gaelic society based on dynastic lordships and Brehon Law gave way to an anglicised and centralised form of government and an English legal system.
Author : Helen Wilcox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 1996-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521467773
First comprehensive introduction to women's role in, and access to, literary culture in early modern Britain.
Author : Robert Allen Houston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2005-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521891677
The volume covers many of the most significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society.
Author : Keith Wrightson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1136486968
English Society, 1580-1680 paints a fascinating picture of society and rural change in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Keith Wrightson discusses both the enduring characteristics of society as well as the course of social change, and emphasizes the wide variation in experience between different social groups and local communities. This is an excellent interpretation of English society, its continuity and its change.
Author : Robert B. Shoemaker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317894375
A lively social history of the roles of men and women - from workplace to household, from parish church to alehouse, from market square to marriage bed. Robert Shoemaker investigates such varied topics as crime, leisure, the theatre, religious observance, notions of morality and even changing patterns of sexual activity itself.
Author : Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780300055979
This book is an investigation of youth and adolescence in pre-industrial England. It concentrates on young people from the middle or lower groups of society, who, between 1500 and 1800, left home to work as apprentices, agricultural labourers or in domestic service. Drawing on municipal, ecclesiastical and parish records, and over 70 autobiographies, Ben-Amos focusses on aspects of youth as they related to maturation: the separation of adolescents from their parents; their working lives and relationships with their employers or masters and mistresses; the relative independence and autonomy exercised by younger women; the role of the young in religious affairs; and the question of whether there was such as thing as a youth subculture.