ABSTRACT
Barry Coward has revised his wide-ranging text which outlines the major social changes that occurred in England in the two hundred years after the Reformation. He examines the religious and intellectual changes resulting from revolutionary pressures, as well as considering the impact of rapid inflation and population expansion in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Overall he stresses that social change combined with social continuity to produce a distinctive early modern English society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|32 pages
The Structure of Early Modern English Society
chapter 1|6 pages
The Social Order in Early Modern England
chapter 2|3 pages
Geographical Mobility
chapter 3|4 pages
An Agrarian Society
chapter 4|5 pages
Contrasting Communities
chapter 5|8 pages
Family and Kinship
chapter 6|6 pages
Local Communities and the Nation
part Two|51 pages
Changing Material Conditions
chapter 7|36 pages
Population Fluctuations and Changing Social Fortunes
chapter 8|6 pages
Poverty and Dearth
chapter 9|9 pages
Affluence and Prosperity
part Three|17 pages
Changing Ideas
chapter 10|3 pages
Education and Literacy
chapter 11|8 pages
The Impact of Protestantism
chapter 12|4 pages
The Scientific Revolution
part Four|2 pages
Assessment
part Five|25 pages
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