Author: Frederick George Emmison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780900360695
Category : Essex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Essex Wills: 1583-1592
Author: Frederick George Emmison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780900360695
Category : Essex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780900360695
Category : Essex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Essex Wills [England]
Author: Frederick George Emmison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wills
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wills
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Essex Wills (England): 1583-1592
Author: Frederick George Emmison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decedents' estates
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decedents' estates
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Essex Wills
Author: Essex Record Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Essex Wills
Author: Essex Record Office
Publisher: Essex Record Office Publication
ISBN: 9780900360961
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: Essex Record Office Publication
ISBN: 9780900360961
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Witches of St Osyth
Author: Marion Gibson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108857787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
An emotive, haunting story of a community torn apart, the Essex witch accusations and trial of 1581-2 are, taken together, one of the pivotal instances of that malign and destructive wave of misogynistic persecution which periodically broke over early modern England. Yet, for all their importance in the overall study of witchcraft, the so-called witches of St Osyth have largely been overlooked by scholars. Marion Gibson now sets right that neglect. Using fresh archival sources – and investigating not just the village itself, but also its neighbouring Elizabethan hamlets and habitations – the author offers revelatory new insights into the sixteen women and one man accused of sorcery while asking wider, provocative questions about the way history is recollected and interpreted. Combining landscape detective work, a reconstruction of lost spaces and authoritative readings of crucial documents, Gibson skilfully unlocks the poignant personal histories of those denied the chance to speak for themselves.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108857787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
An emotive, haunting story of a community torn apart, the Essex witch accusations and trial of 1581-2 are, taken together, one of the pivotal instances of that malign and destructive wave of misogynistic persecution which periodically broke over early modern England. Yet, for all their importance in the overall study of witchcraft, the so-called witches of St Osyth have largely been overlooked by scholars. Marion Gibson now sets right that neglect. Using fresh archival sources – and investigating not just the village itself, but also its neighbouring Elizabethan hamlets and habitations – the author offers revelatory new insights into the sixteen women and one man accused of sorcery while asking wider, provocative questions about the way history is recollected and interpreted. Combining landscape detective work, a reconstruction of lost spaces and authoritative readings of crucial documents, Gibson skilfully unlocks the poignant personal histories of those denied the chance to speak for themselves.
Essex Wills (England): 1591-1597
Author: Frederick George Emmison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decedents' estates
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decedents' estates
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603
Author: Susan E. James
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113478094X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women’s private writings available to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out, commenting on their daily lives, on identity, gender, status, familial relationships and social engagement. Wills show women to have been active participants in a civil society, well aware of their personal authority and potential influence, whose committed actions during life and charitable strategies after death could and did impact the health of that society. From an intensive analysis of more than 1200 wills, this pioneering work focuses on women from all parts of the country and all strata of society, revealing an entire population of articulate, opportunistic, and capable individuals who found the spaces between the lines of the law and used those spaces to achieve personal goals. Author Susan James demonstrates how wills describe strategies for end-of-life care, create platforms of remembrance, and offer insights into the myriad occupational endeavors in which women were engaged. James illuminates how these documents were not simply instruments of bequest and inheritance, but were statements of power and control, catalogues of material culture from which we are able to gauge a woman’s understanding of her own reality and the context that formed her environment. Wills were tools and the way in which women wielded these tools offers new ways to look at England in the 16th century and reveals the seminal role women played in its development.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113478094X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women’s private writings available to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out, commenting on their daily lives, on identity, gender, status, familial relationships and social engagement. Wills show women to have been active participants in a civil society, well aware of their personal authority and potential influence, whose committed actions during life and charitable strategies after death could and did impact the health of that society. From an intensive analysis of more than 1200 wills, this pioneering work focuses on women from all parts of the country and all strata of society, revealing an entire population of articulate, opportunistic, and capable individuals who found the spaces between the lines of the law and used those spaces to achieve personal goals. Author Susan James demonstrates how wills describe strategies for end-of-life care, create platforms of remembrance, and offer insights into the myriad occupational endeavors in which women were engaged. James illuminates how these documents were not simply instruments of bequest and inheritance, but were statements of power and control, catalogues of material culture from which we are able to gauge a woman’s understanding of her own reality and the context that formed her environment. Wills were tools and the way in which women wielded these tools offers new ways to look at England in the 16th century and reveals the seminal role women played in its development.
Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama
Author: Jonathan Gil Harris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521032094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the material, economic and dramatic implications of stage properties in early modern English drama. The essays in this volume, written by a team of distinguished scholars in the field, offer valuable insights and historical evidence concerning the forms of production, circulation and exchange that brought such diverse properties as sacred garments, household furnishings, pawned objects, and even false beards onto the stage.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521032094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the material, economic and dramatic implications of stage properties in early modern English drama. The essays in this volume, written by a team of distinguished scholars in the field, offer valuable insights and historical evidence concerning the forms of production, circulation and exchange that brought such diverse properties as sacred garments, household furnishings, pawned objects, and even false beards onto the stage.
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
Author: Ruth Goodman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1631491407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Selection An erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England, "Goodman's latest…is a revelation" (New York Times Book Review). On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. A celebrated master of British social and domestic history, Ruth Goodman draws on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions to serve as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this “immersive, engrossing” (Slate) work pays tribute to the lives of those who labored through the era. From using soot from candle wax as toothpaste to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressing—the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered for the insatiably curious.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1631491407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Selection An erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England, "Goodman's latest…is a revelation" (New York Times Book Review). On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. A celebrated master of British social and domestic history, Ruth Goodman draws on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions to serve as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this “immersive, engrossing” (Slate) work pays tribute to the lives of those who labored through the era. From using soot from candle wax as toothpaste to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressing—the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered for the insatiably curious.