Social Relations and Urban Space: Norwich, 1600-1700 (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 22)

Product Description This is a book about seventeenth-century Norwich and its inhabitants. At its core are the interconnected themes of social topographies and the relationships between urban inhabitants and their environment. Cityscapes were, and are, shaped and given meaning during the practice of people's lived experiences. In return, those same urban places lend human interactions depth and quality. Social Relations and Urban Space uncovers manifold possible landscapes, including those belonging to the rich and to the poor, to men, to women, to 'strangers and foreigners', to political actors of both formal and informal means. Norwich's inhabitants witnessed the tumultuous seventeenth centuryat first hand, and their experiences were written into the landscape and immortalised in its exemplary surviving records. This book offers an insight into the social relationships and topographies that fashioned both city life and landscape and serves as a useful counterpoise in a field that has largely focused on London.FIONA WILLIAMSON is currently Senior Lecturer in History at the National University of Malaysia.Table of ContentsIntroductionThe City and the ParishClaiming Public Space: Competing PerceptionsSeparations and Intersections: The Norwich StrangersGendering the Streets: Men, Women, and Public SpacePolitical LandscapesConclusion: A City of Many FacesBibliography Review Wide-ranging and thoroughly researched.This fine case-study of an important urban centre.deserves a wide readership [and] acts as an exemplary model of how to write urban history.--ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW About the Author FIONA WILLIAMSON is currently Senior Lecturer in History at the National University of Malaysia.