Faith, Hope and Charity: English Neighbourhoods, 1500-1640

Faith, Hope, and Charity explores the interaction between social ideals and everyday experiences in Tudor and early Stuart neighborhoods, using a rich variety of sources to understand the texture of communal relations and the characteristics of structural processes of inclusion and exclusion.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 306 pages
Publication date: 22 October 2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Faith, Hope and Charity delves into the intricate interplay between societal ideals and everyday realities in Tudor and early Stuart neighborhoods, utilizing a vast array of previously overlooked sources. By concentrating on local sites, where ordinary individuals navigated their daily lives, Andy Wood explores various aspects of popular religion, gender relations, sense of place and identity, festivities, labor, leisure, witchcraft, gossip, and responses to scarcity and disease. Through his meticulous analysis, he sheds new light on our understanding of the intricate fabric of communal relationships in the historical past, while also emphasizing the distinctive features of structural processes of inclusion and exclusion in the formation andlived experiences of communities in early modern England. This captivating social history offers a vivid portrayal of what life was like in these communities, contending that even as early modern individuals perceived the decline of neighborhood values, they persistently evoked and reaffirmed those very values.

Faith, Hope and Charity explores the interaction between social ideals and everyday experiences in Tudor and early Stuart neighborhoods, drawing on a remarkably rich variety of hitherto largely unstudied sources.

Focusing on local sites, where ordinary people lived their lives, Andy Wood deals with popular religion, gender relations, senses of locality and belonging, festivity, work, play, witchcraft, gossip, and reactions to dearth and disease.

He thus brings a new clarity to understandings of the texture of communal relations in the historical past and highlights the particular characteristics of structural processes of inclusion and exclusion in the construction and experience of communities in early modern England.

This engaging social history vividly captures what life would have been like in these communities, arguing that, even while early modern people were sure that the values of neighborhood were dying, they continued to evoke and reassert those values.

Weight: 446g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781108814454