Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations and conventions
- Introduction. Grids of power: order, hierarchy and subordination in early modern society
- 1 Ordering the body: illegitimacy and female authority in seventeenth-century England
- 2 Child sexual abuse in early modern England
- 3 Sex, social relations and the law in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London
- 4 Exhortation and entitlement: negotiating inequality in English rural communities, 1550–1650
- 5 Public transcripts, popular agency and the politics of subsistence in early modern England
- 6 ‘Bragging and daring words’: honour, property and the symbolism of the hunt in Stowe, 1590–1642
- 7 Administrative performance: the representation of political authority in early modern England
- 8 Negotiating order in early seventeenth-century Ireland
- 9 Order, orthodoxy and resistance: the ambiguous legacy of English puritanism or just how moderate was Stephen Denison?
- 10 Making orthodoxy in late Restoration England: the trials of Edmund Hickeringill, 1662–1710
- Notes
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations and conventions
- Introduction. Grids of power: order, hierarchy and subordination in early modern society
- 1 Ordering the body: illegitimacy and female authority in seventeenth-century England
- 2 Child sexual abuse in early modern England
- 3 Sex, social relations and the law in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London
- 4 Exhortation and entitlement: negotiating inequality in English rural communities, 1550–1650
- 5 Public transcripts, popular agency and the politics of subsistence in early modern England
- 6 ‘Bragging and daring words’: honour, property and the symbolism of the hunt in Stowe, 1590–1642
- 7 Administrative performance: the representation of political authority in early modern England
- 8 Negotiating order in early seventeenth-century Ireland
- 9 Order, orthodoxy and resistance: the ambiguous legacy of English puritanism or just how moderate was Stephen Denison?
- 10 Making orthodoxy in late Restoration England: the trials of Edmund Hickeringill, 1662–1710
- Notes
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Negotiating Power in Early Modern SocietyOrder, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001