[A] substantial body of work worthy as a volume dedicated to a distinguished recipient.

• Introduction - Michael Braddick and Phil WithingtonJohn Walter and the social history of early modern England - Keith ThomasContrasting susceptibility to famine in early fourteenth- and late sixteenth-century England: the significance of late medieval rural social structural and village governmental changes - Richard SmithThe politics of English political economy in the 1620s - Paul SlackProvision, household management and the moral authority of wives and mothers in early modern England - Alexandra ShepardPopular senses of past time: dating events in the North Country, 1615-1631 - Keith WrightsonSpectral lordship, popular memory and the boggart of Towneley Hall - Andy WoodSelf-image and public image in the career of a Jacobean magistrate Sir John Newdigate in the Court of Star Chamber - Steve HindleGender, agency and religious change in early Stuart England - Amanda J. Flather'A Standard which can never fail us': the Golden Rule and the construction of a public transcript in early modern England - J.C. DavisReligion, anti-popery and corruption - Mark KnightsAn 'Aristotelian moment': democracy in early modern England - Phil WithingtonJohn Lilburne and political agency in revolutionary England - Michael BraddickAn Irish Protestation? Oaths and the Confederation of Kilkenny - John Morrill'Whereat his wife tooke great greef & died': dying of sorrow and killing in anger in seventeenth-century Ireland - Clodagh Tait

[A] substantial body of work worthy as a volume dedicated to a distinguished recipient.

• Introduction - Michael Braddick and Phil WithingtonJohn Walter and the social history of early modern England - Keith ThomasContrasting susceptibility to famine in early fourteenth- and late sixteenth-century England: the significance of late medieval rural social structural and village governmental changes - Richard SmithThe politics of English political economy in the 1620s - Paul SlackProvision, household management and the moral authority of wives and mothers in early modern England - Alexandra ShepardPopular senses of past time: dating events in the North Country, 1615-1631 - Keith WrightsonSpectral lordship, popular memory and the boggart of Towneley Hall - Andy WoodSelf-image and public image in the career of a Jacobean magistrate Sir John Newdigate in the Court of Star Chamber - Steve HindleGender, agency and religious change in early Stuart England - Amanda J. Flather'A Standard which can never fail us': the Golden Rule and the construction of a public transcript in early modern England - J.C. DavisReligion, anti-popery and corruption - Mark KnightsAn 'Aristotelian moment': democracy in early modern England - Phil WithingtonJohn Lilburne and political agency in revolutionary England - Michael BraddickAn Irish Protestation? Oaths and the Confederation of Kilkenny - John Morrill'Whereat his wife tooke great greef & died': dying of sorrow and killing in anger in seventeenth-century Ireland - Clodagh Tait

[A] substantial body of work worthy as a volume dedicated to a distinguished recipient.

• Introduction - Michael Braddick and Phil WithingtonJohn Walter and the social history of early modern England - Keith ThomasContrasting susceptibility to famine in early fourteenth- and late sixteenth-century England: the significance of late medieval rural social structural and village governmental changes - Richard SmithThe politics of English political economy in the 1620s - Paul SlackProvision, household management and the moral authority of wives and mothers in early modern England - Alexandra ShepardPopular senses of past time: dating events in the North Country, 1615-1631 - Keith WrightsonSpectral lordship, popular memory and the boggart of Towneley Hall - Andy WoodSelf-image and public image in the career of a Jacobean magistrate Sir John Newdigate in the Court of Star Chamber - Steve HindleGender, agency and religious change in early Stuart England - Amanda J. Flather'A Standard which can never fail us': the Golden Rule and the construction of a public transcript in early modern England - J.C. DavisReligion, anti-popery and corruption - Mark KnightsAn 'Aristotelian moment': democracy in early modern England - Phil WithingtonJohn Lilburne and political agency in revolutionary England - Michael BraddickAn Irish Protestation? Oaths and the Confederation of Kilkenny - John Morrill'Whereat his wife tooke great greef & died': dying of sorrow and killing in anger in seventeenth-century Ireland - Clodagh Tait