Synopses & Reviews
The community of Havering-atte-Bower in Essex developed in a precocious fashion during the medieval and early modern periods. The distinctive characteristics seen in this royal manor and Liberty during the later Middle Ages were transformed after 1500. A shared outlook and a willingness to work together for common goals were disrupted. Economic power, influence over religion and local government, and the implementation of social control, formerly distributed among more than a hundred families of middling status, were by 1620 concentrated into the hands of just a few gentlemen and nobles. Havering was at the same time becoming integrated into a wider social and political context. Yet beneath these changes the household unit and common experiences while moving through the stages of the life cycle provided continuity. By the early seventeenth century, Havering contained many features found in English life more generally in the eighteenth century. A community transformed traces the restructuring of Havering between 1500 and 1620 through detailed analysis of demographic patterns, the economy, religion, social and cultural forms, and local administration and law. McIntosh's study, the most complex and richly drawn portrait of any English community in this period, goes beyond local history in illuminating the transition from medieval to early modem life. A community transformed is the sequel to Professor McIntosh's acclaimed work Autonomy and community: the royal manor of Havering, 1200-1500, published by Cambridge in 1986.
Synopsis
The sequel to McIntosh's acclaimed work Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering, 1200-1500.
Synopsis
A Community Transformed traces the restructuring of Havering between 1500 and 1620 through detailed analysis of demographic patterns, the economy, religion, social and cultural forms, and local administration and law. McIntosh's study, the most complex and richly drawn portrait of any English community in this period, goes beyond local history in illuminating the transition from medieval to early modem life. A Community Transformed is the sequel to Professor McIntosh's acclaimed work Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering, 1200-1500, published by Cambridge in 1986.
Synopsis
This book is the sequel to McIntosh's acclaimed work Autonomy and community: the royal manor of Havering, 1200-1500.
Table of Contents
List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Life and death; 2. Changing economic patterns; 3. Religion; 4. Facets of a society in transition; 5. Havering's declining independence; 6. Overt conflict, 1607-19; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.