Civil Histories: Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas

by Peter Burke (Editor), Brian Harrison (Editor), Paul Slack (Editor)

Overview

This volume is a tribute to Sir Keith Thomas, one of Britain's greatest living historians, by distinguished scholars who have been his students. They describe the changing meanings of civility and civil manners since the sixteenth century, showing how the terms were used with respect to different people—women, the English and Welsh, imperialists, businessmen—and their effects in fields as varied as sexual relations, religion, urban politics, and private life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198207108
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/13/2000
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

University of Cambridge

University of Oxford

University of Oxford

Table of Contents

1. Keith Thomas, The Editors2. A Civil Tongue: Language and Politeness in Early Modern Europe, Peter Burke3. Civilized Religion from Renaissance to Reformation and Counter-Reformation, Euan Cameron4. Civility and Civil Observances in the Early Modern English Funeral, Ralph Houlbrooke5. Sexual Manners: The Other Face of Civility in Early Modern England, Martin Ingram6. The Civility of Women in Seventeenth-Century England, Sara Mendelson7. Civilization and Deodorization? Smell in Early Modern English Culture, Mark S R Jenner8. Civility and the Decline of Magic, Alan Macfarlane9. Perceptions of the Metropolis in Seventeenth-Century England, Paul Slack10. Civility and Civic Culture in Early Modern England: The Meanings of Urban Freedom, Jonathan Barry11. Arson, Threats of Arson, and Incivility in Early Modern England, Bernard Capp12. Civility, Civilizing Processes, and the End of Public Punishment in England, J A Sharpe13. From the German Forests to Civil Society: The Frankish Myth and the Ancient Constitution in France, Robin Briggs14. Music, Reason, and Politeness: Magic and Witchcraft in the Career of George Fredric Handel, Ian Bostridge15. Wild Wales: Civilizing the Welsh from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries, Prys Morgan16. The Moral Economy of Business: A Historical Perspective on Ethics and Efficiency, Leslie Hannah17. Civilizing Mammon: Laws, Morals, and the City in Nineteenth-Century England, Paul Johnson18. Civility and Empire, John Darwin19. The Public and the Private in Modern Britain, Brian Harrison20. The Published Writings of Keith Thomas, 1957-1998, Giles Mandelbrote

Editorial Reviews

"An outstanding collection...Scholars of early modern England will doubtless want to buy a copy for their private libraries"—History

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