This collection is concerned with the articulation, mediation and reception of authority; the preoccupations and aspirations of both governors and governed in e

This collection is concerned with the articulation, mediation and reception of authority; the preoccupations and aspirations of both governors and governed in e

This book attempts both to take stock of directions in the field and to suggest alternative perspectives on some central aspects of the period.

How were cultural, political, and social identities formed in the early modern period? How were they maintained? What happened when they were contested? What me

Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history. A tribute to the work of Keith Wrigh