Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, and the Social Order in Early Modern England
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Accounting for Oneself is a major new study of the social order in early modern England, as viewed and articulated from the bottom up. Engaging with how people from across the social spectrum placed themselves within the social order, it pieces together the language of self-description deployed by over 13,500 witnesses in English courts when answering questions designed to assess their creditworthiness. Spanning the period between 1550 and 1728, and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199600791
ISBN13:9780199600793
Release Date:April 2015
Publisher:Oxford University Press (UK)
Length:376 Pages
Weight:1.80 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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