When Gossips Meet: Women, Family, and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England (Oxford Studies in Social History) - Hardcover

Capp, Bernard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199255989 ISBN 13: 9780199255986

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England sought to make the best of their lives in a society that excluded or marginalized them in almost every sphere. It argues that networks of close friends ('gossips') provided invaluable moral and practical support, helping them to shape their own lives and to play an active role in the affairs of the local community.

About this title

About the Author:

Bernard Capp is Professor of History at the University of Warwick.

Review:

`Review from other book by this author an excellent narrative of the major operation of the English fleet ... Dr Capp's social study of the seamen is even more valuable ... a splendid book ... there is no doubt that this is an important addition to 17th-century history.'
Times Higher Educational Supplement

`Bernard Capp brings to the subject his wide knowledge of the political, social and religious history of the Interregnum ... The whole is based on the most meticulous scholarship in a very wide range of printed and manuscript sources.'
Times Literary Supplement

`an excellent, stimulating book which should be read by anyone interested in the Royal Navy, the seventeenth century, and good history ... this is an excellent book, one that should encourage a broader, and better informed approach to Naval History.'
International Journal of Maritime History

`without doubt one of the most important published works ever to have been written on the Navy in the 1650s ... Erudite and extensively researched, Bernard Capp has produced a book whose dominant themes are built to last.'
Mariner's Mirror

`an admirable contribution to the field of naval history ... a highly sophisticated - and immensely erudite - study in social, political and religious history using the navy as a focus.'
Jonathan I. Israel, Bijdragen en Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0199255989
• ISBN 13: 9780199255986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408