:Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland

Abstract

Introduction: grids of power: order, hierarchy and subordination in early modern society Michael J. Braddick and John Walter 1. Ordering the body: illegitimacy and female authority in seventeenth-century England Laura Gowing 2. Child sexual abuse in early modern England Martin Ingram 3. Sex, social relations and the law in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London Faramerz Dabhoiwala 4. Exhortation and entitlement: negotiating equality in English rural communities, 1550-1650 Steve Hindle 5. Public transcripts, popular agency and the politics of subsistence in early modern England John Walter 6. 'Bragging and daring words': honour, property, and the symbolism of the hunt in Stowe, 1590-1642 Dan Beaver 7. Administrative performance: the representation of political authority in early modern England Michael J. Braddick 8. Negotiating order in early seventeenth-century Ireland Raymond Gillespie 9. Order, orthodoxy and resistance: the ambiguous legacy of English puritanism, or, Just how moderate was Stephen Denison? Peter Lake 10. Making orthodoxy in late Restoration England: the trials of Edmund Hickeringill, 1662-1710 Justin Champion and Lee McNulty.