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Book SynopsisHow were cultural, political and social identities formed in the early modern period? This book looks at community and networks, the importance of place and the value of rhetoric in generating "community".
Table of ContentsList of tables and illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. P. J. Withington and Alexandra Shepard – Introduction: communities in early modern England
Part One: Networks
2. Jason Scott-Warren – Reconstructing manuscript networks: the textual transactions of Sir Stepehn Powle
3. Margaret Pelling – Defensive tactics: networking by female medical practitioners in early modern London
4. Margaret Sena – William Blundell and the networks of Catholic dissent in post-Reformation England
5. Ian Archer – Social networks in Restoration London: the evidence from Samuel Pepys’ diary
Part Two: Place
6. Steven Hindle – A sense of place? Becoming and belonging in the rural parish, 1550-1650
7. Paul Griffiths – Overlapping circles: imagining criminal communities in London, 1545-1645
8. P. J. Withington – Citizens, community and political culture in Restoration England
9. Craig Muldrew – From a ‘light cloak’ to the ‘iron cage’: an essay on historical changes in the relationship between community and individualism
Part Three: Rhetoric
10. Cathy Shrank – Rhetorical constructions of a national community: the role of the King’s English in mid-Tudor writing
11. Geoff Baldwin – The ‘public’ as a rhetorical community in early modern England
12. Alexandra Shepard – Contesting communities?: ‘town’ and ‘gown’ in Cambridge, c.1560-1640
13. Natasha Glaisyer – Readers, correspondents and communities: John Houghton’s ‘A collection for improvement of husbandrry and trade’ (1692-1703)
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