Local Identities in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Inspired by the path-breaking work of Robert Tittler, the authors explore late Medieval and Early Modern community and identity across England. They examine the decline of neighbourliness, the politics of market towns, clerical status, charity, crime, and ways in which overlapping communities of court and country, London and Lancashire, relate.

Inspired by the path-breaking work of Robert Tittler, the authors explore late Medieval and Early Modern community and identity across England. They examine the decline of neighbourliness, the politics of market towns, clerical status, charity, crime, and ways in which overlapping communities of court and country, London and Lancashire, relate.

Notes on Contributors Robert Tittler: an Appreciation Introduction; N.L.Jones & D.Woolf The 'decline of neighbourliness' revisited; K.Wrightson Whoring Priests and Godly Citizens: Law, Morality, and Clerical Sexual Misconduct in Late Medieval London; S.McSheffrey Locals, Outsiders, and Identity in English Market Towns, 1290-1620; M.K.McIntosh 'Berwick is our England': Local and National Identities in an Elizabethan Border Town; K.J.Kesselring The Alehousekeeper's Revenge: London's Role in the Reformation Process in a Lancashire Parish; J.P.Ward Sir Francis Knollys and his Progeny: Court and Country in the Thames Valley; A.F.Johnston Married to the Town: Francis Parlett's Rhetoric of Urban Magistracy in Early Modern England; C.F.Patterson The Charity of London Widows in the Later Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries; I.W.Archer Locality and Self in the Elizabethan Lottery of the 1560s; D.Dean Building Bridewell: London's Self-Images, 1550-1640; P.Griffiths