Society and Culture in Early Modern England

David Cressy is Professor of History at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Contents: Preface; Opportunities: Describing the social order of Elizabethan and Stuart England; Levels of illiteracy in England 1530-1730; Literacy in context: meaning and measurement in early modern England; Books as totems in 17th century England and New England; Educational opportunity in Tudor and Stuart England; Francis Bacon and the advancement of schooling; A drudgery of schoolmasters: the teaching profession in Elizabethan and Stuart England; Passages: The vast and furious ocean: the passage to Puritan New England; The seasonality of marriage in Old and New England; Kinship and kin interaction in early modern England; Purification, thanksgiving, and the churching of women in post-reformation England; Gender trouble and cross-dressing in Early Modern England; Death and the social order: the funerary preferences of Elizabethan gentlemen; Binding the nation: the Bonds of Association, 1584 and 1696; The Protestant calendar and the vocabulary of celebration in early modern England; Index.