Author: Julian HuntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Probate Records of the Archdeaconry Court of Buckingham, 1483-1660 and of the Buckinghamshire Peculiars, 1420-1660
Author: Julian HuntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Records of Buckinghamshire
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buckinghamshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700
Author: Frances TimbersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317036522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the early sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century. Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets, rogue literature, and plays), and archival material (quarter sessions and assize cases, parish records and constables's accounts), the book argues that the construction of gypsy identity was part of a wider discourse concerning the increasing vagabond population, and was further informed by the religious reformations and political insecurities of the time. The developing narrative of a fraternity of dangerous vagrants resulted in the gypsy population being designated as a special category of rogues and vagabonds by both the state and popular culture. The alleged Egyptian origin of the group and the practice of fortune-telling by palmistry contributed elements of the exotic, which contributed to the concept of the mysterious alien. However, as this book reveals, a close examination of the first gypsies that are known by name shows that they were more likely Scottish and English vagrants, employing the ambiguous and mysterious reputation of the newly emerging category of gypsy. This challenges the theory that sixteenth-century gypsies were migrants from India and/or early predecessors to the later Roma population, as proposed by nineteenth-century gypsiologists. The book argues that the fluid identity of gypsies, whose origins and ethnicity were (and still are) ambiguous, allowed for the group to become a prime candidate for the 'other', thus a useful tool for reinforcing the parameters of orthodox social behaviour.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Author: Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603
Author: Susan E. JamesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134781016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women’s private writings available to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out, commenting on their daily lives, on identity, gender, status, familial relationships and social engagement. Wills show women to have been active participants in a civil society, well aware of their personal authority and potential influence, whose committed actions during life and charitable strategies after death could and did impact the health of that society. From an intensive analysis of more than 1200 wills, this pioneering work focuses on women from all parts of the country and all strata of society, revealing an entire population of articulate, opportunistic, and capable individuals who found the spaces between the lines of the law and used those spaces to achieve personal goals. Author Susan James demonstrates how wills describe strategies for end-of-life care, create platforms of remembrance, and offer insights into the myriad occupational endeavors in which women were engaged. James illuminates how these documents were not simply instruments of bequest and inheritance, but were statements of power and control, catalogues of material culture from which we are able to gauge a woman’s understanding of her own reality and the context that formed her environment. Wills were tools and the way in which women wielded these tools offers new ways to look at England in the 16th century and reveals the seminal role women played in its development.
The Household Book (1510-1551) of Sir Edward Don
Author: Sir Edward DonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Index Library
Author: The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
Book Description
The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881
Author: C.C. BaldwinPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5874721363
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 989
Book Description
The Courts of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham, 1483-1523
Author: Elizabeth M. ElveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Contains actual transcriptions of the following probate records: courts and wills 1483-1513, wills 1517-1518, courts and wills 1519-1520, courts 1519-1521, filed wills 1506-1520, wills book 1521-1523. Records are in latin and old english.