Description: Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history.
Brief description: Henry French is Professor of Social History at the University of Exeter. He has published on rural society in England, as well as the landed elite, and the use of urban common lands in England.
Review Quotes: This is a strong and coherent collection of essays. . . . In their analytical sophistication and their archival richness, the essays here demonstrate Keith Wrightson's deep impact on early modern British social history.-- "RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY"