The First Modern Society Essays in English History in Honour of Larence Stone [Paperback]

Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence.Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.List of illustrations; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Prologue: Lawrence Stone - as seen by others; 1. The myth and the man Julian Mitchell; 2. The enfant terrible? C. S. L. Davies; 3. 'Il Magnifico' Miriam Slater; 4. The eminence rouge? John M. Murrin; Part I. The Crown, The Aristocracy and The Gentry: 5. Lineage and kin in the sixteenth-century aristocracy: some comparative evidence on England and Germany Judith J. Hurwich; 6. Public ceremony and royal charisma: the English royal gentry in London, 14851642 R. M. Smuts; 7. County governance and elite withdrawal in Norfolk, 16601720 James M. Rosenheim; 8. The last Hanoverian sovereign?: the Victorian monarchy in historical perspective, 16881988 David Cannadine; 9. The gentrification of Victorian and Edwardian industrialists Richard Trainor; Part II. Power and Social Relations: 10. Poverty and progress in early modern England A. L. Beier; 11. Ambiguity and contradiction in 'the rise of professionalism': the English clergy, 15701730 Michael HalÃè