Civil histories : essays presented to Sir Keith Thomas / edited by Peter Burke, Brian Harrison, and Paul Slack
- Published:
- Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Burke, Peter, 1937-, Harrison, Brian, 1937-, Slack, Paul, and Thomas, Keith, 1933-
- Contents:
- Keith Thomas / Peter Burke, Brian Harrison, and Paul Slack -- A civil tongue: language and politeness in early modern Europe / Peter Burke -- 'Civilized religion': from Renaissance to Reformation and counter-reformation / Euan Cameron -- Civility and civil observances in the early modern English funeral / Ralph Houlbrooke -- Sexual manners: the other face of civility in early modern England / Marin Ingram -- The civility of women in seventeenth-century England / Sara Mendelson -- Civilization and deodorization? Smell in early modern English culture / Mark S.R. Jenner -- Civility and the decline of magic / Alan Macfarlane -- Perceptions of the metropolis in seventeenth-century England / Paul Slack -- Civility and civic culture in early modern England: the meanings of urban freedom / Jonathan Barry -- Arson, threats of arson, and incivility in early modern England / Bernard Capp -- Civility, civilizing processes, and the end of public punishment in England / J.A. Sharpe -- From the German forests to civil society: the Frakish myth and the ancient constitution in France / Robin Briggs -- Music, reason, and politeness: magic and witchcraft in the career of George Frideric Handel / Ian Bostridge -- Wild Wales: civilizing the Welsh from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries / Prys Morgan -- The moral economy of business: a historical perspective on ethics and efficiency / Leslie Hannah -- Civilizing Mammon: Laws, morals, and the city in nineteenth-century England / Paul Johnson -- Civility and empire / John Darwin -- The public and private in modern Britain / Brian Harrison -- The published writings of Keith Thomas, 1957-1998 / Giles Mandelbrote
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 0198207107 (acid-free paper)
- Bibliography Note:
- "The published writings of Keith Thomas, 1957-1998": pages [359]-377.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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