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Author Shepard, Alexandra, author.

Title Accounting for oneself : worth, status, and the social order in early modern England / Alexandra Shepard
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Self and Society in Early Modern England -- Part I. Wealth and Poverty -- Calculating Credit -- Quantifying Status -- Demarcating Poverty -- Part 2. Maintenance -- Maintaining Oneself -- Depending on Others -- Making a Living -- Part 3. The Changing Currency of Credit -- Refashioning Credibility -- Conclusion: Reappraising the World of Goods
Summary This study brings together an unprecedented volume of material to offer a fundamentally new account of the social order in early modern England. The book pieces together the language of self-description deployed by over 13,500 witnesses in English courts in response to questions designed to assess their creditworthiness. Spanning the period between 1550 and 1728, it is the first study of English society that fully incorporates women; that offers comprehensive coverage of the range of social groups from the gentry to the labouring poor and across the life cycle; and that represents regional variation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed on February 5, 2015)
Subject Social classes -- England -- History -- 16th century
Social classes -- England -- History -- 17th century
Social classes -- England -- History -- 18th century
Occupations -- England -- History -- 16th century
Occupations -- England -- History -- 17th century
Occupations -- England -- History -- 18th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Occupations
Social classes
Normes sociales -- 16e siècle.
Valeurs sociales -- 16e siècle.
Normes sociales -- Dix-huitième siècle.
Valeurs sociales -- Dix-huitième siècle.
Perception de soi.
Individu et société.
Sociala klasser -- historia.
England
Engeland.
Angleterre (GB) -- 16e siècle.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191017445
0191017442
9780191778711
0191778710