ISBN:
9780191542671
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (413 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306/.0942/09031
Keywords:
Great Britain-History-Tudors, 1485-1603
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Great Britain-History-Stuarts, 1603-1714
;
Great Britain-History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume is a tribute to one of England's greatest living historians, Sir Keith Thomas, by distinguished scholars who have been his pupils. They describe the changing meanings of civility and civil manners since the sixteenth century. They show how the terms were used with respect to different people - women, the English and the Welsh, imperialists, and businessmen - and their effects in fields as varied as sexual relations, religion, urban politics, and privatelife.
Abstract:
Intro -- TITLE PAGE -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Keith Thomas -- A Civil Tongue: Language and Politeness in Early Modern Europe -- 'Civilized Religion' from Renaissance to Reformation and Counter-Reformation -- Civility and Civil Observances in the Early Modern English Funeral -- Sexual Manners: The Other Face of Civility in Early Modern England -- The Civility of Women in Seventeenth-Century England -- Civilization and Deodorization? Smell in Early Modern English Culture -- Civility and the Decline of Magic -- Perceptions of the Metropolis in Seventeenth-Century England -- Civility and Civic Culture in Early Modern England: The Meanings of Urban Freedom -- Arson, Threats of Arson, and Incivility in Early Modern England -- Civility, Civilizing Processes, and the End of Public Punishment in England -- From the German Forests to Civil Society: The Frankish Myth and the Ancient Constitution in France -- Music, Reason, and Politeness: Magic and Witchcraft in the Career of George Frideric Handel -- Wild Wales: Civilizing the Welsh from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries -- The Moral Economy of Business: A Historical Perspective on Ethics and Efficiency -- Civilizing Mammon: Laws, Morals, and the City in Nineteenth-Century England -- Civility and Empire -- The Public and the Private in Modern Britian -- The Published Writings of Keith Thomas, 1957-1998 -- INDEX.
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