J. Braddick / John Walter (eds.)

Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society

Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland
Herausgeber: Braddick, M. J.; Braddick, Michael J.; Walter, John

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Produktbeschreibung

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 - in which the disadvantaged have influence only in moments of direct confrontation. 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. They explore the weapons with which subordinated groups in their everyday lives could moderate the exercise of power over them. Recovering the agency of the disadvantaged, the book also explores the limits to the power that the disadvantaged could claim in the past. Its findings also have relevance for thinking about inequality in present-day societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9780521651639
• ISBN-10: 0521651638
• Artikelnr.: 26698782

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Braddick (b. 1962) has taught at the University of Sheffield since 1990, having held previous positions at the University of Alabama and Birmingham-Southern College, Alabama. His major study State Formation in Early Modern England c. 1550-1700 (2000) was published by Cambridge University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

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.