The Social World of Early Modern Westminster : Abbey, Court and Community, 1525-1640.

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The social world of early modern Westminster; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Rediscovering early modern Westminster; Chapter 1: Henrician Westminster: corporate life in a time of change 1525-47; THE WESTMINSTER PARISHES BEFORE THE 1530S; ST MARGARET WESTMINSTER; ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS; THE HENRICIAN REVOLUTION IN WESTMINSTER; THE IMPACT ON THE PARISHES; SPATIAL CHANGE; RELIGIOUS CHANGE; Chapter 2: The Impact of the Reformation in Westminster 1547-62; THE EDWARDIAN REFORMATION.

THE MARIAN REFORMATION AND ITS AFTERMATHCONCLUSION; Chapter 3: Town, cloister and Crown; POWER RELATIONS IN WESTMINSTER 1540-1612; THE GROWTH OF INSTABILITY IN EARLY STUART WESTMINSTER; THE STRUGGLE FOR INCORPORATION 1585-1636; 1585: AN ACT 'TO MAKE TRYALL WITH'; 1607: 'FOR AVOIDING OF OPPRESSION'; THE 1630S: WESTMINSTER AND THE REORGANIZATION OF METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT; Chapter 4: Parish elites; THE PARAMETERS OF PARISH OFFICE; THE EMERGENCE OF THE WESTMINSTER VESTRIES; PATRONAGE AND SOCIAL NETWORKS; ST MARTIN'S: THE CECIL NEXUS, THE KING'S WORKS AND GENTRIFICATION.

ST MARGARET'S: BUREAUCRATS, VICTUALLERS AND ABBEY PATRONAGESTATUS AND OBLIGATION IN LOCAL SOCIETY; CONCLUSION; Chapter 5: The rise of a fashionable society; TOWNHOUSES; LODGINGS; SHOPPING; SIGHTSEEING; OUTDOOR RECREATIONS; EATING AND DRINKING; SERVANTS; CONCLUSION; Chapter 6: Space and urban identities; THE SUBURBAN INHERITANCE; THE CROWN AND THE SPATIAL ECONOMY OF WESTMINSTER; A COURTLY NEIGHBOURHOOD IN TRANSITION; COMMON LANDS: DEFINING COMMUNAL INTERESTS; PERAMBULATION: DEFINING PAROCHIAL SPACE; THE PARISH CHURCH AND SOCIAL IDENTITY; THE STRUGGLE FOR STATUS: SEATING AT ST MARTIN' S.

PATROLLING THE POOR: SEATING AT ST MARGARET'SCONCLUSION; Chapter 7: The Westminster Court of Burgesses: neighbourhood, disorder and urban expansion; DISORDERED BEGINNINGS; THE BURGESSES AND LOCAL SOCIETY; THE COURT OF BURGESSES AT WORK; IMMIGRATION, REPUTATION AND URBAN EXPANSION; REGULATION OF PERSONAL CONDUCT: PUNISHMENT AND ARBITRATION; CONCLUSION: URBAN ANONYMITY AND THE ROLE OF THE COURT OF BURGESSES; Chapter 8: Poverty, plague and the politics of communal responsibility; POPULATION AND POVERTY; CHARITY, THE ABBEY AND THE CROWN; POVERTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURES.

PAROCHIAL INITIATIVES: THE ANTECEDENTS OF WESTMINSTER'S POOR RATENEGOTIATING THE POOR RATE: A PROBLEM IN SOCIAL RELATIONS; PATTERNS OF CHARITY: THE LIVING AND THE DEAD; RECIPIENTS OF RELIEF; DISTRIBUTION OF RELIEF; PLAGUE, POVERTY AND THE COMMUNITY; THE CROWN AND ELITE RESPONSES TO PLAGUE; QUARANTINE AND THE COMMUNITY; THE FINANCIAL IMPACT OF PLAGUE; CONCLUSION; Chapter 9: Religious life and religious politics c.1558-1640; ST MARTIN'S AND THE GROWTH OF PROTESTANT LAY ACTIVISM; CLERGY AND LAITY; A CULTURE OF PREACHING; CATECHIZING AND COMMUNION.

THE POST-REFORMATION ABBEY AND RELIGIOUS CONSERVATISM IN ST MARGARET' S.

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