ISBN: 9780198207108

Sir Keith Thomas is one of the most innovative and influential of English historians, and a scholar of unusual range. These essays, presented to him on his retirement as President of Corp… More...

Sir Keith Thomas is one of the most innovative and influential of English historians, and a scholar of unusual range. These essays, presented to him on his retirement as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, concentrate on one of the broad themes illuminated by his work - changingnotions of civility in the past. From the sixteenth century onwards, civility was a term applied to modes of behaviour as well as to cultural and civic attributes. Its influence extended from styles of language and sexual mores to funeral ceremonies and commercial morality. It was used todistinguish the civil from the barbarous and the English from the Irish and Welsh, and to banish superstition and justify imperialism. The contributors - distinguished historians who have been Keith Thomas''s pupils - illustrate the many implications of civility in the early modern period and itsshifts of meaning down to the twentieth century. | Civil Histories by Peter Burke Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > European History > United Kingdom History P10103, Peter Burke<

ISBN: 9780198207108

Sir Keith Thomas is one of the most innovative and influential of English historians, and a scholar of unusual range. These essays, presented to him on his retirement as President of Cor… More...

Sir Keith Thomas is one of the most innovative and influential of English historians, and a scholar of unusual range. These essays, presented to him on his retirement as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, concentrate on one of the broad themes illuminated by his work - changingnotions of civility in the past. From the sixteenth century onwards, civility was a term applied to modes of behaviour as well as to cultural and civic attributes. Its influence extended from styles of language and sexual mores to funeral ceremonies and commercial morality. It was used todistinguish the civil from the barbarous and the English from the Irish and Welsh, and to banish superstition and justify imperialism. The contributors - distinguished historians who have been Keith Thomas''s pupils - illustrate the many implications of civility in the early modern period and itsshifts of meaning down to the twentieth century. Books > History > European History > United Kingdom History List_Books, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

2000, ISBN: 9780198207108

Oxford University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 416 Seiten, Publiziert: 2000-07-13T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: frontispiece, halftones, 1.67 kg, Phil… More...

Oxford University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 416 Seiten, Publiziert: 2000-07-13T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: frontispiece, halftones, 1.67 kg, Philosophie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Englische Bücher, Format: Illustriert, Burke, Peter, Harrison, Brian Howard, Slack, Paul, Thomas, Keith, Oxford University Press, 2000<