目录
目 录
Preface
PART ONE POLITICS AND LAW
Charles I and the Causes of the English Civil War
On the Tudor Monarchy and Nobility
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PART TWO ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
Transformation of English Towns in the Early Modern Times
I.English Towns in 1500
II.The Transformation of the Old Towns
III.The Rise of the New Cities
Looking for China:The English in the Arctic in the Sixteenth Century
Anti-Monopoly,Mercantilism and the English Revolution
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II
Women in the English Civil War
I.Introduction
II.Women in Traditional Roles
III.Traditional Roles in Novel Circumstances
IV.New Roles in Uncertain Times(1):Women in the Book Trade
V.New Roles in Uncertain Times(2):Mystics and Prophets
VI.Recording the Civil War:Poets and Memoirists
Conclusion
Hospital's Secularization in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
I.Secularization,and Hospital's Secularization
II.The Process of Hospital's Secularization and Its Embodiments
1.Hospitals in the Middle Ages
2.Hospital after the Reformation
III.Causes of the Hospital's Secularization
PART THREE RELIGION AND CULTURE
The Church in Late Medieval and Early Reformation England:Narratives and Master Narratives of National,Local,and Ordinary Religion
I.Introduction
II.Narratives and Master Narratives
III.Catholic England and Catholic Europe
IV.The Localism of English Catholicism
V.Indulgences:A Case Study in Change
Conclusion
Religion and the English Revolution
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III
IV
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Some Questions about Thomas More's Religious Views
I.What is the Ideal Religion in More's Heart?
II.Why did More support Freedom of of Faith?
III.Why did More Justify the Suppression of Heretics?
Some Conclusions
The Role of Preaching in Political and Cultural Change,1500-1720
I.Composition,delivery,and reception
II.English Sermons 1500-1660
III.English Sermons 1660-1720
IV.Sermons in Scotland,Ireland,and Wales
Conclusion
On the Witch-Hunt in China and the West:A Comparative Study between the Chinese Sorcery Scare in 1768 and Witch Persecution in Early Modern Europe
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Conclusion