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Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status and the Social Order in Early Modern England, by Alexandra Shepard

Reinke-Williams, T. (2016) Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status and the Social Order in Early Modern England, by Alexandra Shepard. The English Historical Review. 131(550), pp. 668-670. 0013-8266.

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Abstract:
In this book Alexandra Shepard uses 13,686 witness statements (of which 3,331 were by women) made between 1550 and 1728 in the church courts of seven dioceses and two archdeaconries, alongside similar evidence from the Cambridge University courts, to examine the relationship between wealth, occupation and social identity across the long seventeenth century. Witnesses were asked both what they were worth in goods, their debts paid, and how they maintained or got a living, and their responses enable Shepard to track how the calculus of esteem was re-evaluated as assessments of worth moved from being based primarily on what one owned to how one earned a living. The book is organised into three sections, the first consisting of three chapters dealing with concepts of wealth and poverty; the second of three chapters addressing questions of maintenance; and the third comprising a single chapter on changing concepts of credibility.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Social Order, Early Modern England, Alexandra Shepard
Creators:
Reinke-Williams, T.
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:
Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > History
Date:
1 June 2016
Date Type:
Publication
Page Range:
pp. 668-670
Journal or Publication Title:
The English Historical Review
Volume:
131
Number:
550
Number of Pages:
3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/ehr/cew071
ISSN:
0013-8266
Status:
Published / Disseminated
Refereed:
Yes
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