Communities in Early Modern England

Alexandra Shepard is Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex. Phil Withington is Lecturer in Cultural History at the University of Aberdeen

• List of tables and illustrationsList of contributorsPrefaceList of abbreviations1. P. J. Withington and Alexandra Shepard – Introduction: communities in early modern EnglandPart One: Networks2. Jason Scott-Warren – Reconstructing manuscript networks: the textual transactions of Sir Stepehn Powle3. Margaret Pelling – Defensive tactics: networking by female medical practitioners in early modern London4. Margaret Sena – William Blundell and the networks of Catholic dissent in post-Reformation England5. Ian Archer – Social networks in Restoration London: the evidence from Samuel Pepys’ diaryPart Two: Place6. Steven Hindle – A sense of place? Becoming and belonging in the rural parish, 1550-16507. Paul Griffiths – Overlapping circles: imagining criminal communities in London, 1545-16458. P. J. Withington – Citizens, community and political culture in Restoration England9. Craig Muldrew – From a ‘light cloak’ to the ‘iron cage’: an essay on historical changes in the relationship between community and individualismPart Three: Rhetoric10. Cathy Shrank – Rhetorical constructions of a national community: the role of the King’s English in mid-Tudor writing11. Geoff Baldwin – The ‘public’ as a rhetorical community in early modern England12. Alexandra Shepard – Contesting communities?: ‘town’ and ‘gown’ in Cambridge, c.1560-164013. Natasha Glaisyer – Readers, correspondents and communities: John Houghton’s ‘A collection for improvement of husbandrry and trade’ (1692-1703)Bibliography