Description: Garthine Walker examines how theory has contributed, both explicitly and implicitly, to the writing of early modern history.
Brief description: GARTHINE WALKER is Senior Lecturer in History at Cardiff University. Her publications include Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Writing Early Modern History(Arnold, 2005), and essays and articles on topics ranging from abduction, rape and criminal households to the influence of psychoanalysis and modernisation theory in historical writing.
Review Quotes: "Well put together. Short overview of a period many students are now unfamiliar with." --Dr E Vallance, University of Liverpool