God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660This book presents a fresh view of crucial processes of change, offering through an interdisciplinary analysis fresh insights into both the history and literature of the land in early modern England. It examines a wide range of source material concerned with the practices and values of rural England--sermons, pamphlets, satiric verse and drama, husbandry and surveying manuals, chorographic texts, and rural poetry. It traces important developments in patterns of representation, which at once parallel and promote the nation's shift toward modern standards of individualism and mercantilism. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
VERSIONS OF MORAL ECONOMY | 21 |
Covetousness in the countryside agrarian complaint and midTudor reform | 23 |
Moral economics and the TudorStuart Church | 58 |
The rural vision of Renaissance satire | 80 |
Agrarian communism | 110 |
IMPERATIVES OF IMPROVEMENT | 133 |
Husbandry manuals and agrarian improvement | 135 |
Other editions - View all
God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660 Andrew McRae No preview available - 1996 |
Common terms and phrases
agrarian complaint agrarian improvement agricultural argues arguments Cambridge Camden chapter chorography Christopher Hill claims common commonwealth concern contemporary context country house poem countryside covetousness Crowley cultural discourse of agrarian Drayton's Early Modern England edition Edwardian Elizabethan enclosure England English gentry georgic Georgic Revolution Gerrard Winstanley godly Helgerson husbandman husbandry ideals ideological individual Jacobean Joan Thirsk John John Norden Jonson's labour land landlord landscape literary London lord manorial mid-Tudor moral movement Norman Yoke Oxford pastoral Piers Plowman tradition plough ploughman Plowman poem poetry political Poly-Olbion poor practice profit Protestant R. H. Tawney radical Reformation reinforced religious Renaissance representations of agrarian Robert Crowley rural poetics Samuel Hartlib satire sermons seventeenth century shepherd significance sixteenth century social and economic Society socio-economic Spenser's strategies structure surveying surveyor tenants texts Thirsk Thomas thou throughout tradition Tudor Tusser verse vision Winstanley woad writes
References to this book
Maps and Memory in Early Modern England: A Sense of Place Rhonda Lemke Sanford No preview available - 2002 |