Description
Book SynopsisIn this history of early modern London, the essays range widely, covering the themes of polis and the police, gender and sexuality, space and place, and material culture and consumption.
Table of ContentsPreface
Abbreviations
List of tables and figures
Introduction
1. Ian Archer 'Popular politics in 16th and early 17th century London'
2. Michael Berlin, 'Reordering ritual: the parish and ceremony in London, 1520-1640'
3. Tim Wales, 'Thief-takers and their clients in London, c.1670-1720'
4. Faramerz Dabhoiwala, 'The pattern of sexual immorality in seventeenth and eigthteenth-century London'
5. Maragret R. Hunt, 'London wives and marital 'rights' in the Court of Exchequer in the early eighteenth century'
6. Laura Gowing, '"The freedom of the streets": women and social space in London, 1560-1640'
7. Margaret Pelling, 'Skirting the city? Disease, social change and divided huoseholds in the seventeenth-century metropolis'
8. Paul Griffiths, '"Uniformity" in the Goldsmiths' Row: visualizing order in early Stuart Cheapside'
9. Jeremy Boulton, 'The poor among the rich: a long-term view of pauperism in London's West End'
10. Sara Pennell, '"Great quantities of gooseberry pye and baked clod of beef": victualling and eating out in early modern London'
11. Mark Jenner, 'From conduit community to commercial network? Water in London, 1500-1725'
