This classic study of a single community in early modern England has had a major influence on the interpretation of the social dynamics of the period. It opens with a chapter establishing this small Essex parish in the national context of econmic and social change in the years between 1525and 1700. Thereafter the chapters examine the economy of Terling, its demographic history, its social structure, the relationships of the villagers with the ...
A moving account of the plague outbreak in 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, seen through the eyes of the scrivener Ralph Tailor, who remained when others fled.
Wrightson describes the basic institutions and relationships of economic life in Britain, tracing the processes of change, and examines how these changes affect men, women, and children of all ages. Illustrations.
A fascinating picture of society and rural change in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which discusses both the enduring characteristics of society as well as the course of social change.
