The Rebuilding of Rural England, 1570–1640

Hoskins, W. G.

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“…Writing in 1577, in an economically “advanced” area of England, the Essex cleric William Harrison (Edelen ) commented that the “old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain” cite “three things to be marvellously altered in England within their sound remembrance”: the replacement of the open hearth with fireplaces and chimneystacks, the “great amendment of lodging” including the replacement of straw mattresses with featherbeds, the use of a bolster or pillow instead of a “good round log,” and changes in furniture. Harrison also discussed a great rise in the number and standards of moveable goods, for example the exchange of wooden tableware for that of metal—“for so common were all sorts of treen [wooden] stuff in old time, that a man should hardly find four pieces of pewter… in a good farmer's house” (Edelen :200–1; see also Hoskins ).…”

Section: One: Larger Patterns and Processes: Housing Culture And An Amentioning

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3 English Houses, Materiality, and Everyday Life

Johnson¹

2015

Archaeological Papers of the American

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My previous work developed a structural model for understanding English vernacular houses, stressing the way the house reflected wider household values. In this paper, I balance this account by starting with everyday life rather than formal structure. I examine material traces of dwelling within and around the house, rather than the presumed mental template that conditioned its building. I discuss material items that flowed through the house in sometimes unpredictable and alarming ways (for example through witchcraft). These artifacts reflect gendered tensions and anxieties that ran through the rhythms of everyday life, rather than a patriarchal structure that governed them. A focus on dwelling brings into focus how the material form of the house and the social form of the household mutually created each other.

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Section: One: Larger Patterns and Processes: Housing Culture And An Amentioning

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3 English Houses, Materiality, and Everyday Life

Johnson¹

2015

Archaeological Papers of the American

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“…His concern with vernacular architecture as epitomizing local interactions between humans and the environment was to become an important focus for later writing on regional and cultural geography in North America as well as Britain and France. He identified what later became known as the 'great rebuilding' of local farmhouses and cottages (Hoskins 1954;Denyer 1991).…”

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William Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes and the geographical tradition

Whyte

2000

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“…Such a transition undoubtedly occurred in England in early modern times. From an analysis of various documents including still-standing homes, Hoskins (1953) locates a revolution in domestic architecture in East Anglia between 1570 and 1640. Continuous development along similar lines occurred throughout the remainder of England over the course of the seventeenth and into the eighteenth centuries (Barley 1967).…”

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“…Further, investments in domestic heating and in fineries such as linen and pewter grew rapidly (Shammas 1980;Pollard and Crossley 1968). This revolution in domesticity extended to a relatively wide range of the English populace (Hoskins 1953). From the early English settlements in North America, the Colonies exhibited similar levels of domestic investment.…”

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Capitalism, Protestantism and the Private Family: Comparisons among Early Modern England, France, and the American Colonies*

Johnson

1989

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The study of western family change lies disintegrated, divided into two largely independent intellectual communities-family history and theoretical family sociology. An integration of the two fields is proposed. The results of family historical research from three national cases, England, France, and the North American Colonies, are used to evaluate critically the family theories of Parsons, Seccombe, Zaretsky, and Horkheimer. The pattern of family organization regarded as modern, including the differentiation of the family from other social institutions, the emergence of companionate marriage, and the consolidation of authority over the family in the role of the father, characterize the family systems of England and the Colonies better than that of France. A theory of modern family organization is proposed that identifies the emergence of a culturally dominant middle class and the institutionalization of Protestantism as facilitating conditions for the development of this private family system. TX 78713 CAPITALISM, PROTESTANTISM AND THE PRIVATE FAMILY 145 an emerging consensus within the methods of historical sociology, which Abrams (1982) has termed ''practical historical explanation. " This method attempts a compromise between theory development, which requires generalization, and history, which requires attention to time and place. That compromise proposes a level of generality intermediate between non-historical universals and non-generalizable particulars.The present effort to develop an historical theory of western family change includes: (1) the specification of guiding hypotheses derived from a synthesis of three macro-level social theories (structural-functionalism, Marxism, and critical theory); (2) an evaluation of these hypotheses for selected historical cases; and (3) a reformulation of theory at a more appropriate level of historical generalization. Macro-Social Theories of Family ChangeStudies of western family change are couched in the historical etiology of modern family organization. This focus implies at least three fundamental problems: (1) demarcation, (2) historicity, and (3) causality. The first problem concerns the specification of features which distinguish modern family organization from premodern times. The second problem concerns a description of timing and pace of the transformation. The third concerns the identification of the historically contingent social forces that led to the transformation.

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The Rebuilding of Rural England, 1570–1640

Cited by 12 publications

References 1 publication

3 English Houses, Materiality, and Everyday Life

3 English Houses, Materiality, and Everyday Life

William Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes and the geographical tradition

Capitalism, Protestantism and the Private Family: Comparisons among Early Modern England, France, and the American Colonies*

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