Londinopolis

Events such as the Fire of London and the Plague, and locations like the Globe, are part of the capital's heritage. Between 1500 and 1750 London underwent exceptional changes. Its population soared from around 50,000 in 1500 to approximately 200,000 in 1600 and by 1700 it was nearly half a million. Whereas in 1500 it contained only 4 per cent of the population of England, by 1750 it was over 11 per cent. This demographic explosion transformed the nature of the city. From being a relatively close knit community it became a vast and rootless metropolis, as big as the great cities of Europe. Londoners came to rely more on newsprint than gossip to find out what was going on and the period saw a rapid expansion in publishing and literacy. The size and diversity of London made it a centre of new social and sexual identities and a solvent of older, more hierarchical forms of social organisation. The essays in this volume range widely, covering the themes of polis and the police, gender and sexuality, space and place, and material culture and consumption. Within these themes the reader encounters thieves, prostitutes, litigious wives, the poor, disease, "great quantities of gooseberry pye" and the very taxing question of fresh water.

ISBN 0719051517   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780719051517 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 608 Publisher Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Imprint Manchester University Press   Series editor Hughes, Ann, Hughes, Ann, Milton, Anthony Format Hardback   Series title Politics and Culture in Early Modern Britain Publication date 28 Dec 2000   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2002421013   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 942.105   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly Pages 296

		List of Tables and Figures
		Notes on the Contributors
		List of Abbreviations
1		Introduction by Mark S. R. Jenner and Paul Griffiths		1
2		Popular politics in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by Ian W. Archer		26
3		Reordering rituals: ceremony and the parish, 1520-1640 by Michael Berlin		47
4		Thief-takers and their clients in later Stuart London by Tim Wales		67
5		The pattern of sexual immorality in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London by Faramerz Dabhoiwala		86
6		Wives and marital 'rights' in the Court of Exchequer in the early eighteenth century by Margaret R. Hunt		107
7		'The freedom of the streets': women and social space, 1560-1640 by Laura Gowing		130
8		Skirting the city? Disease, social change and divided households in the seventeenth century by Margaret Pelling		154
9		Politics made visible: order, residence and uniformity in Cheapside, 1600-45 by Paul Griffiths		176
10		The poor among the rich: paupers and the parish, in the West End, 1600-1724 by Jeremy Boulton		197
11		'Great quantities of gooseberry pye and baked clod of beef': victualling and eating out in early modern London by Sara Pennell		228
12		From conduit community to commercial network? Water in London, 1500-1725 by Mark S. R. Jenner		250
		Index		273

.,."a charming and informative set of essays...""- Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance"

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