Title: Change and continuity in seventeenth-century England /
Authors: Hill, Christopher, 1912-2003
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: England Civilization; Great Britain History
Abstract: Reprint of the 1974 edition with additional preface, postscripts to chapters 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, and 10, and other corrections.
Contents: Puritans and 'the dark corners of the land' -- Arise Evans: Welshman in London -- Protestantism and the rise of capitalism -- 'Reason' and 'reasonableness' -- The radical critics of Oxford and Cambridge in the 1650s -- The inns of court -- The medical profession and its radical critics -- The many-headed monster -- A one-class society? -- Pottage for freeborn Englishmen : attitudes to wage-labour -- Men as they live their own history -- Sir Isaac Newton and his society -- Conclusion -- Postscripts.