Faith, Hope and Charity

Andy Wood is Professor of Social History at the University of Durham. The author of five books, including The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England (2007) and The Memory of the People: Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England (2013) which won the American Historical Association's Leo Gershoy Award in 2014, his current research focuses on the study of authority and resistance in England from 1500-1640.

A study of English neighbourhoods based on a rich variety of hitherto largely unstudied sources, engages with the interaction of social ideals and everyday experience in Tudor and early Stuart neighbourhoods with emphasis on popular religion, notions of gender, locality and belonging between 1500 and 1640.

List of Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Charity Never Faileth: Defining Neighbourhood; 1.1 The Crisis of Neighbourhood; 1.2 Who Is My Neighbour?; 1.3 Charity and Neighbourhood; 1.4 Christian Neighbours; 2. Charity Suffereth Long: Neighbourhood and Community; 2.1 'A Nere Neyghbour is Better than a Farre Frende': The Social Logic of Neighbourhood; 2.2 Paternalism and the Reinforcement of Hierarchy; 2.3 Alcohol, Alehouses and Good Neighbourhood; 2.4 Festivity, Play and the Celebration of Neighbourhood; 3. Now Abideth Faith, Hope and Charity: Place Neighbourhood and People; 3.1 Public Worlds; 3.2 Nation, Country and Neighbourhood; 3.3 'A Packe of People'? Urban Neighbourhoods; 3.4 'A Kynde of Murdering my Neighbor': Disputes and their Settlement; 3.5 The Gender of Neighbourhood; 4. The Tongues of Men and Angels: Inclusion and Exclusion; 4.1 Newfangled Precisians: Neighbourhood and Religious Division; 4.2 Community Turned Inside Out: Witches, Gossips and Informers; 4.3 The Plight of Thomas Barebones: Settlement, Place and Neighbourhood; 4.4 The Better Sort and the Domination of Parish Politics; 4.5 Robin Starveling and the Destroying Angel: Famine, Disease and the Limits of Neighbourhood; Bibliography; Index.