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Civil Histories: Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas

Hardback by Burke, Peter (Professor of Cultural History, Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge); Harrison, Brian (Professor of Modern British History, University of Oxford, Professor of Modern British History, University of Oxford); Slack, Paul (Principal of Linacre College and Professor of Early Modern Social History, Principal of Linacre College and Professor of...

Civil Histories: Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas

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ISBN:
9780198207108
Publication Date:
4 May 2000
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pages:
416 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 24 - 29 May 2024
Civil Histories: Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas

Description

Sir Keith Thomas is one of the most innovative and influential of English historians, and a scholar of unusual range. These essays, presented to him on his retirement as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, concentrate on one of the broad themes illuminated by his work - changing notions of civility in the past. From the sixteenth century onwards, civility was a term applied to modes of behaviour as well as to cultural and civic attributes. Its influence extended from styles of language and sexual mores to funeral ceremonies and commercial morality. It was used to distinguish the civil from the barbarous and the English from the Irish and Welsh, and to banish superstition and justify imperialism. The contributors - distinguished historians who have been Keith Thomas's pupils - illustrate the many implications of civility in the early modern period and its shifts of meaning down to the twentieth century.

Contents

1. Keith Thomas ; 2. A Civil Tongue: Language and Politeness in Early Modern Europe ; 3. Civilized Religion from Renaissance to Reformation and Counter-Reformation ; 4. Civility and Civil Observances in the Early Modern English Funeral ; 5. Sexual Manners: The Other Face of Civility in Early Modern England ; 6. The Civility of Women in Seventeenth-Century England ; 7. Civilization and Deodorization? Smell in Early Modern English Culture ; 8. Civility and the Decline of Magic ; 9. Perceptions of the Metropolis in Seventeenth-Century England ; 10. Civility and Civic Culture in Early Modern England: The Meanings of Urban Freedom ; 11. Arson, Threats of Arson, and Incivility in Early Modern England ; 12. Civility, Civilizing Processes, and the End of Public Punishment in England ; 13. From the German Forests to Civil Society: The Frankish Myth and the Ancient Constitution in France ; 14. Music, Reason, and Politeness: Magic and Witchcraft in the Career of George Fredric Handel ; 15. Wild Wales: Civilizing the Welsh from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries ; 16. The Moral Economy of Business: A Historical Perspective on Ethics and Efficiency ; 17. Civilizing Mammon: Laws, Morals, and the City in Nineteenth-Century England ; 18. Civility and Empire ; 19. The Public and the Private in Modern Britain ; 20. The Published Writings of Keith Thomas, 1957-1998

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