Londinopolis

Events such as the fire of London and the Plague, and locations like the Globe, are part of our 'national heritage' however until recently the history of London between 1500 and 1750 has been little studied. As a city 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. Covering the themes of polis and the police, gender and sexuality, space and place, and material culture and consumption the book encounters thieves, prostitutes, litigious wives, the poor, disease, 'great quantities of gooseberry pye' and the very taxing question of fresh water. Focuses on the experiences and perceptions of Londoners, rather than giving an account of a depersonalized and disembodied thing called "London". Will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of London or in the social and cultural history of early modern society.

ISBN 0719051525   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780719051524 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 424 Publisher Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Imprint Manchester University Press   Series editor Hughes, Ann, Hughes, Ann, Milton, Anthony Format Paperback   Series title Politics, Culture & Society in Early Modern Britain Publication date 28 Dec 2000   Previous ISBN 9780719051517 Non-book description xi, 284 p. :   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2002421013   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 942.105   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly Pages 300

		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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