Civil Histories
Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas
Edited by Peter Burke, Brian Harrison, and Paul Slack
Table of Contents
1. Keith Thomas, The Editors
2. A Civil Tongue: Language and Politeness in Early Modern Europe, Peter Burke
3. Civilized Religion from Renaissance to Reformation and Counter-Reformation, Euan Cameron
4. Civility and Civil Observances in the Early Modern English Funeral, Ralph Houlbrooke
5. Sexual Manners: The Other Face of Civility in Early Modern England, Martin Ingram
6. The Civility of Women in Seventeenth-Century England, Sara Mendelson
7. Civilization and Deodorization? Smell in Early Modern English Culture, Mark S R Jenner
8. Civility and the Decline of Magic, Alan Macfarlane
9. Perceptions of the Metropolis in Seventeenth-Century England, Paul Slack
10. Civility and Civic Culture in Early Modern England: The Meanings of Urban Freedom, Jonathan Barry
11. Arson, Threats of Arson, and Incivility in Early Modern England, Bernard Capp
12. Civility, Civilizing Processes, and the End of Public Punishment in England, J A Sharpe
13. From the German Forests to Civil Society: The Frankish Myth and the Ancient Constitution in France, Robin Briggs
14. Music, Reason, and Politeness: Magic and Witchcraft in the Career of George Fredric Handel, Ian Bostridge
15. Wild Wales: Civilizing the Welsh from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries, Prys Morgan
16. The Moral Economy of Business: A Historical Perspective on Ethics and Efficiency, Leslie Hannah
17. Civilizing Mammon: Laws, Morals, and the City in Nineteenth-Century England, Paul Johnson
18. Civility and Empire, John Darwin
19. The Public and the Private in Modern Britain, Brian Harrison
20. The Published Writings of Keith Thomas, 1957-1998, Giles Mandelbrote