Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society
Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society
Addressing the dynamics of power in early modern societies, this book challenges the existing tendency to see past societies in terms of binary oppositions--such as male/female, rich/poor, rulers/ruled. Drawing on recent social theory, the essays offer a series of micro-sociologies of power in early modern society, ranging from the politics of age, gender and class to the politics of state-building in the post-Reformation confessional state. Its findings also have relevance for thinking about inequality in present-day societies.
- Makes new and explicit use of work on power in social theory, offering a wide breadth and range of case studies
- Includes some startlingly new and original material, for example on child abuse in the seventeenth century and on the symbolism of hunting
- Integrates traditional political and religious histories with social and cultural histories
Reviews & endorsements
"this collection makes great strides with its examination of these issues and marks an important contribution to our understanding of early modern politics in their broadest sense." H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
"Walter and Braddick are to be commended for their contribution to the field and for elaborating on the uses of social theory." Sixteenth Century Journal
Product details
November 2018Paperback
9781108716451
326 pages
230 × 153 × 20 mm
0.5kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction: grids of power: order, hierarchy and subordination in early modern society Michael J. Braddick and John Walter
- 1. Ordering the body: illegitimacy and female authority in seventeenth-century England Laura Gowing
- 2. Child sexual abuse in early modern England Martin Ingram
- 3. Sex, social relations and the law in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London Faramerz Dabhoiwala
- 4. Exhortation and entitlement: negotiating equality in English rural communities, 1550–1650 Steve Hindle
- 5. Public transcripts, popular agency and the politics of subsistence in early modern England John Walter
- 6. 'Bragging and daring words': honour, property, and the symbolism of the hunt in Stowe, 1590–1642 Dan Beaver
- 7. Administrative performance: the representation of political authority in early modern England Michael J. Braddick
- 8. Negotiating order in early seventeenth-century Ireland Raymond Gillespie
- 9. Order, orthodoxy and resistance: the ambiguous legacy of English puritanism, or, Just how moderate was Stephen Denison? Peter Lake
- 10. Making orthodoxy in late Restoration England: the trials of Edmund Hickeringill, 1662–1710 Justin Champion and Lee McNulty.
