Civil histories : essays presented to Sir Keith Thomas /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. |
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| Description: | xiii, 399 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4326542 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Editors
- 2. A Civil Tongue: Language and Politeness in Early Modern Europe
- 3. Civilized Religion from Renaissance to Reformation and Counter-Reformation
- 4. Civility and Civil Observances in the Early Modern English Funeral
- 5. Sexual Manners: The Other Face of Civility in Early Modern England
- 6. The Civility of Women in Seventeenth-Century England
- 7. Civilization and Deodorization? Smell in Early Modern English Culture
- 8. Civility and the Decline of Magic
- 9. Perceptions of the Metropolis in Seventeenth-Century England
- 10. Civility and Civic Culture in Early Modern England: The Meanings of Urban Freedom
- 11. Arson, Threats of Arson, and Incivility in Early Modern England
- 12. Civility, Civilizing Processes, and the End of Public Punishment in England
- 13. From the German Forests to Civil Society: The Frankish Myth and the Ancient Constitution in France
- 14. Music, Reason, and Politeness: Magic and Witchcraft in the Career of George Fredric Handel
- 15. Wild Wales: Civilizing the Welsh from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
- 16. The Moral Economy of Business: A Historical Perspective on Ethics and Efficiency
- 17. Civilizing Mammon: Laws, Morals, and the City in Nineteenth-Century England
- 18. Civility and Empire
- 19. The Public and the Private in Modern Britain
- 20. The Published Writings of Keith Thomas, 1957-1998
