Civil histories : essays presented to Sir Keith Thomas / edited by Peter Burke, Brian Harrison, and Paul Slack.

Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Descriptionxiii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Great Britain--History. --Tudors, 1485-1603.
Great Britain--History. --Stuarts, 1603-1714.
Great Britain--History.

Other author/creatorBurke, Peter, 1937-
Other author/creatorHarrison, Brian, 1937-
Other author/creatorSlack, Paul.
Other author/creatorThomas, 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
Bibliography note"The published writings of Keith Thomas, 1957-1998": p. [359]-377.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99042631
ISBN0198207107 (acid-free paper)

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