Londinopolis
Subtitle: essays in the cultural and social history of early modern London
By: edited by Paul Griffiths and Mark S.R. Jenner.
Contributors: Jenner, Mark S. R.; Griffiths, Paul, 1960-
Series: Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: London (England) -- Civilization.; London (England) -- Social conditions.; London (England) -- History -- 16th century.; London (England) -- History -- 17th century.; London (England) -- History -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Polis and Police. Popular politics in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Ian W. Archer ; Reordering rituals : ceremony and the parish, 1520-1640 / Michael Berlin ; Thief-takers and their clients in later Stuart London / Tim Wales; title: pt. 2. Gender and sexuality. The pattern of sexual immorality in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London / Faramerz Dabhoiwala ; Wives and marital 'rights' in the Court of Exchequer in the early eighteenth century / Margaret R. Hunt ; 'The freedom of the streets' : women and social space, 1560-1640 / Laura Gowing; title: pt. 3. Senses of space and place. Skirting the city? : disease, social change and divided households in the seventeenth century / Margaret Pelling ; Politics made visible : order, residence and uniformity in Cheapside, 1600-45 / Paul Griffiths ; The poor among the rich : paupers and the parish in the West End, 1600-1724 / Jeremy Boulton; title: pt. 4. Material culture and consumption. 'Great quantities of gooseberry pye and baked clod of beef'" : victualling and eating out in early modern London / Sara Pennell ; From conduit community to commercial network? : water in London, 1500-1725 / Mark S. R. Jenner.