Being Elizabethan : understanding Shakespeare's neighbors
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Norman L. 1951- (Norman Leslie), author
- Publication/Creation:
- Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Being Elizabethan : understanding Shakespeare's neighbors / Norman Jones
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Conduct of life--History--16th century
Faith--Social aspects--England--History--16th century
Belief change--England--History--16th century
Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603
England--Social life and customs--16th century
England--Social conditions--16th century
England--Religious life and customs
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Idealized lives : speak nothing but good of the dead -- Divine social and political orders -- Roles -- Taming the natural child : preparations for living -- Seeing the world anew -- Reimagining England's past -- Living under divine providence -- Personal virtue -- Moral economies -- Creating the godly state -- A generation of hearers -- Elizabethan lives lived.
- Summary:
- "This book has been in gestation since 1972. When I began studying history professionally, I had a question on my mind: I wanted to understand the relationship between belief and behavior. My lab was the Reformation, in which people openly talked about what they believed and formally altered those beliefs, marking the beginning of early modern culture. Since I began, my work has explored various approaches to this question, and this work is a synthesis of my varied inquests into Elizabethan society"--
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xiv, 354 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936899916102486
- ISBN:
- 9781119168232
1119168236
9781119168249
1119168244 - OCLC Number:
- 1081338227
- Barcode:
- 010003129899
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