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Civil Histories

Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas

by Keith Thomas, Peter Burke

  • Hardback
  • 416 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.4 cm

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For historians and scholars exploring cultural shifts

Examines changing definitions of civility in history

You will gain a deeper understanding of societal norms

Civil Histories offers profound insights into evolving ideas of civility.

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Sir Keith Thomas is one of the most innovative and influential of English historians, and a scholar of unusual range. These essays, presented to him on his retirement as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, concentrate on one of the broad themes illuminated by his work - changing notions of civility in the past. From the sixteenth century onwards, civility was a term applied to modes of behaviour as well as to cultural and civic attributes. Its influence extended from styles of language and sexual mores to funeral ceremonies and commercial morality. It was used to distinguish the civil from the barbarous and the English from the Irish and Welsh, and to banish superstition and justify imperialism. The contributors - distinguished historians who have been Keith Thomas's pupils - illustrate the many implications of civility in the early modern period and its shifts of meaning down to the twentieth century.
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  • Authors

    Keith Thomas +2

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    May 2000

  • Weight

    759g

  • Page Count

    416

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780198207108

  • ISBN-10

    0198207107

  • Eden Code

    4562756

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