Locating Privacy in Tudor London - Image 1

£50.98

Oxford University Press Locating Privacy in Tudor London

Name: Locating Privacy in Tudor London
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 50.98 GBP
Availability: InStock

Great Britain

Price History & Forecast

Last 11 days • 11 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 11 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £51 (11 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £51 - £51

Price levels: 1 different prices over 11 days

Description

Locating Privacy in Tudor London asks new questions about where private life was lived in the early modern period, about where evidence of it has been preserved, and about how progressive and coherent its history can be said to have been. The Renaissance and the Reformation are generally taken to have produced significant advances in individuality, subjectivity, and interiority, especially among the elite, but this study of middling-sort culture shows privacy to have been an object of suspicion, of competing priorities, and of compulsory betrayals. The institutional archives of civic governance, livery companies, parish churches, and ecclesiastical courts reveal the degree to which society organized itself around principles of preventing privacy, as a condition of order. Also represented in the discussion are such material artifacts as domestic buildings and household furnishings, which were routinely experienced as collective and monitory agents rather than spheres of exclusivity and self-expression. In 'everyday' life, it is argued, economic motivations were of more urgent concern than the political paradigms that have usually informed our understanding of the Renaissance. Locating Privacy pursues the case study of Alice Barnham (1523-1604), a previously unknown merchant-class woman, subject of one of the earliest family group paintings from England. Her story is touched by many of the changes-in social structure, religion, the built environment, the spread of literacy, and the history of privacy-that define the sixteenth century.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0199577382
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Great Britain
Domain: Amazon UK
Publication Date: 11 January 2010
Listed Since: 09 April 2009

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press Locating Privacy in Tudor London

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England

On Privacy (Thinking in Action)

The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury

Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works

Privacy and Media Freedom

The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern

The Youth of Early Modern Women - Amsterdam University Press

Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium

City Women: Money, Sex, And The Social Order In Early Modern London

Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England: A Northamptonshire Maid's Tragedy (Studies in Modern British Religious History)

London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800

From the Margins to the Centre in Seventeenth-Century England: Essays in Honour of Bernard Capp (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History)

Routledge Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England

Being Elizabethan: Understanding Shakespeare's Neighbors

Out of the Shadows: The Life of Lucy, Countess of Bedford

The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (New Oxford History of England)

Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England: Illicit Sex and the Nobility (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England: 43 (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History)

Personal Disclosures: An Anthology of Self-Writings from the Seventeenth Century (The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions)

Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England

Information, Institutions, and Local Government in England, 1550-1700: Turning Inside

The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare

Cuckoldry, Impotence and Adultery in Europe (15th-17th century) (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)

Women and Writing, c.1340-c.1650: The Domestication of Print Culture (Manuscript Culture in the British Isles)