Accounting for oneself : worth, status, and the social order in early modern England / Alexandra Shepard.
This study brings together an unprecedented volume of material to offer a fundamentally new account of the social order in early modern England. The book pieces together the language of self-description deployed by over 13,500 witnesses in English courts in response to questions designed to assess t...
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Full Text (via Oxford Scholarship Online) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | This study brings together an unprecedented volume of material to offer a fundamentally new account of the social order in early modern England. The book pieces together the language of self-description deployed by over 13,500 witnesses in English courts in response to questions designed to assess their creditworthiness. Spanning the period between 1550 and 1728, it is the first study of English society that fully incorporates women; that offers comprehensive coverage of the range of social groups from the gentry to the labouring poor and across the life cycle; and that represents regional variation. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : map (black and white) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191778711 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199600793.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 24, 2015) |