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Early Modern England: Histories
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The community study has been, for more than a long generation, one of the hallmarks of social and cultural history, and has been well represented in the work of historians of early modern England. The complexity of the events shaping political, religious, and economic change during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has often sent historians to local sources in an effort to comprehend the causes and consequences of national trends. Recent examples of this approach--such as Muriel McClendon's study of Reformation Norwich, David Underdown's work on seventeenth-century Dorchester, and Daniel Beaver's analysis of parish communities in and around Gloucester--make long-term developments explicable by putting them in human terms while at the same time revealing the diversity and contested nature of early modern communities.
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"Tattoos, graffiti, pots, poesy rings, and inscriptions on clothes and on implements were all significant and meaningful forms of writing in early modern England. In this beautifully packaged and engaging book Juliet Fleming argues that these modes of writing . . . were central to consciousness and to the idea of writing. . . . Her book succeeds—as a challenge to our understating of the practices of writing and the notion of literature—because of its originality, its restless interrogation of words well beyond the realms of the canonical, its brilliantly imaginative approach to cultural history, and because of its well-proportioned, elegant, and dense prose."—Albion
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"Early modern thinkers used the past in a multitude of complex ways that we have only begun to understand. In this ambitious and wide-ranging collection, a roster of nineteen stellar scholars have made the most important contribution to this subject since F. J. Levy's Tudor Historical Thought, first published in 1967."–Robert D. Hume, Evan Pugh Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University
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This course explores the history of medicine in a particular early modern society, England in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the world of Shakespeare and Milton, of Hobbes and Locke, of Bacon and Newton. By looking not merely at medicine (illnesses and therapeutics) and medical practitioners but at the broader set of attitudes and institutions by which ideas about health were expressed in this world, we will get an understanding of how medicine functions across a society.
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