Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Understanding early modern primary sources -- The 'stuff' of early modern history -- 'Sources' and 'Histories' -- A note on practicalities -- 'Early modern' -- Primary sources -- Historians and their sources -- Part I: Sources -- Part II: Histories -- Notes -- Part I Sources -- 1 …
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Understanding early modern primary sources -- The 'stuff' of early modern history -- 'Sources' and 'Histories' -- A note on practicalities -- 'Early modern' -- Primary sources -- Historians and their sources -- Part I: Sources -- Part II: Histories -- Notes -- Part I Sources -- 1 State Papers and related collections -- The history of the State Papers -- Other collections
Scope and subjects -- The structure and arrangement of the State Papers -- The structure and arrangement of other collections -- Calendars, catalogues and other finding aids -- Conclusion: where to start -- Key resources -- Notes -- 2 Legal and judicial sources -- The criminal courts -- The Church courts -- The equity courts -- Conclusion -- Key resources -- Notes -- 3 Ecclesiastical sources -- Introduction -- Shaping the Church -- Teaching, preaching and worship -- Running the Church -- Policing behaviour -- Books, buildings and goodbyes -- Conclusion -- Key resources -- Notes -- 4 Print
Key resources -- Notes -- 5 Literary sources -- What does the early modern period think literature is and does? -- Why should a historian know about early modern literary genres? -- How can a historian find and use early modern literary sources? -- Key resources -- Notes -- 6 Personal documents -- Definitions -- Locating personal documents -- Analysing personal documents -- Authors -- Functions -- Audiences -- Genre -- Survival -- Summary -- Key resources -- Notes -- 7 Visual and material sources -- The status of visual and material sources -- What do we mean by visual and material sources?
Steps in the study of visual and material sources -- Ways of studying the visual and the material -- Finding visual and material sources -- Accessing visual and material sources -- Engaging with visual and material sources -- Referencing visual and material sources -- Case studies -- Key resources -- Notes -- Part II Histories -- 8 Gender -- Sources for ideas about women and men -- Laws, regulations and judicial records -- Hearing women's voices in the sources -- Key resources -- Notes -- 9 Religion and religious change -- Statutes, formulae and confessions of faith
Liturgies, music and sermons -- Polemical and devotional works -- Religious manuscripts -- The visual arts -- Administrative records -- Everything else -- Key resources -- Notes -- 10 Political culture(s) -- Political thought -- Counsel -- Civic humanism -- Historical perspectives -- The Court and Parliament -- Patronage -- Place -- Ceremonies and entertainments -- Popular politics -- Change -- Conclusion -- Key resources -- Notes -- 11 Popular culture -- Defining popular culture -- Popular rituals -- Legal records -- Popular politics -- Cheap print -- Diaries -- Conclusion -- Key resources
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- Publication Date:2016
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- Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
- Place of Publication:Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016
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- Description:1 Online-Ressource (313 Seiten)
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- ISBN:9781138823631, 1138823635
- oclc:on1020671097
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