Contrasting communities : English villagers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /
A study of three Cambridgeshire villages.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1974.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine derived contents note: List of maps and graphs
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. People, Families and Land: 1. The peopling of a county
- 2. The problem: the disappearance of the small landowner
- 3. The reality: the small landholder on the chalk: Chippenham
- 4. The reality: the small landholder on the clay: Orwell
- 5. The reality: the small landholder in the fens: Willingham
- Part II. The Schooling of the Peasantry: 6. A general view of schools and schoolmasters
- 7. The elementary ability to write: Willingham and Orwell
- 8. The importance of reading in the village community
- Part III. Parishioners and their Religion: 9. Dissent before and after the commonwealth
- 10. A general view of the laity in the diocese of Ely
- 11. Fragmentation and the growth of sects
- 12. The possible determinants of dissent
- 13. The reality of religion for the villager
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Index of contemporary names
- General index.