Imagining Early Modern London
Perceptions and Portrayals of the City from Stow to Strype, 1598 1720
The 120 years that separate the first publication of John Stow’s famous Survey of London in 1598 from John Strype’s enormous new edition of the same work in 1720 witnessed London’s transformation into a sprawling augustan metropolis, very different from the compact medieval city so lovingly charted in the pages of Stow. Imagining Early Modern London takes Stow’s classic account of the Elizabethan city as a starting point for an examination of how generations of very different Londoners - men and women, antiquaries, merchants, skilled craftsmen, labourers and beggars - experienced and understood the dramatically changing city. A series of inte…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-521-03758-7
- EAN: 9780521037587
- Produktnummer: 2917695
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 494 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 494
Über den Autor
Dr Julia Merritt is Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Sheffield. Her previous publications include The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1621-1641 (Cambridge University Press 1996).
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