Faith, Hope and Charity: English Neighbourhoods, 1500–1640
Cambridge University Press, 10/22/2020
EAN 9781108840668, ISBN10: 1108840663
Hardcover, 306 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Faith, Hope and Charity explores the interaction between social ideals and everyday experiences in Tudor and early Stuart neighbourhoods, drawing on a remarkably rich variety of hitherto largely unstudied sources. Focusing on local sites, where ordinary people lived their lives, Andy Wood deals with popular religion, gender relations, senses of locality and belonging, festivity, work, play, witchcraft, gossip, and reactions to dearth and disease. He thus brings a new clarity to understandings of the texture of communal relations in the historical past and highlights the particular characteristics of structural processes of inclusion and exclusion in the construction and experience of communities in early modern England. This engaging social history vividly captures what life would have been like in these communities, arguing that, even while early modern people were sure that the values of neighbourhood were dying, they continued to evoke and reassert those values.
List of Abbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Charity Never Faileth
Defining Neighbourhood
1.1 The Crisis of Neighbourhood
1.2 Who Is My Neighbour?
1.3 Charity and Neighbourhood
1.4 Christian Neighbours
2. Charity Suffereth Long
Neighbourhood and Community
2.1 'A Nere Neyghbour is Better than a Farre Frende'
The Social Logic of Neighbourhood
2.2 Paternalism and the Reinforcement of Hierarchy
2.3 Alcohol, Alehouses and Good Neighbourhood
2.4 Festivity, Play and the Celebration of Neighbourhood
3. Now Abideth Faith, Hope and Charity
Place Neighbourhood and People
3.1 Public Worlds
3.2 Nation, Country and Neighbourhood
3.3 'A Packe of People'? Urban Neighbourhoods
3.4 'A Kynde of Murdering my Neighbor'
Disputes and their Settlement
3.5 The Gender of Neighbourhood
4. The Tongues of Men and Angels
Inclusion and Exclusion
4.1 Newfangled Precisians
Neighbourhood and Religious Division
4.2 Community Turned Inside Out
Witches, Gossips and Informers
4.3 The Plight of Thomas Barebones
Settlement, Place and Neighbourhood
4.4 The Better Sort and the Domination of Parish Politics
4.5 Robin Starveling and the Destroying Angel
Famine, Disease and the Limits of Neighbourhood
Bibliography
Index.