Phil Withington
Biographic Data
| ID | 1072879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phil Withington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phil |
| FAMILY NAME | Withington |
| SIGNATURE | WITHINGTON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1567-5751 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
Volume II charts European urbanism between 700–1850, the millennium during which Europe became the world's most urbanised region. Featuring thirty-six chapters from leading scholars working on all the major linguistic areas of Europe, the volume offers a state-of-the-art survey that explores and explains this transformation, how similar or different such processes were across Europe, and how far it is possible to discern traits that characterise …
Plague and intoxicants in the Baltic and North Seas during the long seventeenth century
The article argues that medical responses to plague were a cause of the ‘psychoactive revolution’ during the long seventeenth century. Focusing on four metropoles in the Baltic and North Sea region, it shows that the commodification of sugar, opiates and tobacco during the last century of the Second Great Pandemic correlates both with outbreaks of plague in Amsterdam, Hamburg, London and Stockholm and with the intra-regional prescription of these…
The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia
Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance, attracting enormous amount of critical attention since its first publication in Latin in 1516. This handbook of specially commissioned and original chapters by experts in their respective fields brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about More’s book: in terms of its Renaissance contexts, its utopian legacie…
Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia
Remaking the Drunkard in Early Stuart England
This article traces the changing semantics of drunkard in English during the first half of the seventeenth century. Combining methods of “distant reading” (made possible by the Early English Books Online–Text Creation Partnership) and the “close reading” of didactic printed materials, it shows how this venerable Middle English word became unusually prevalent and ideologically charged in the six decades after the ascension of James VI and I to the…
Introduction to Intoxicants and Early Modern European Globalization
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Addiction, Intoxicants, and the Humoral Body
Taking the humoral body as its spatial focus, this article considers how medical writers and practitioners engaged with ‘intoxicants’ both in terms of the prescription of medicines and in the conceptualization of compulsive consumption – or what is often styled by modern practitioners as ‘addiction’. Focusing in the first instance on the compilers of vernacular pharmacopoeia – compilations of medical ingredients and techniques – the article argue…
Pre-Modern Citizenship: An Ancient Concept for the Modern World
This article discusses the challenges and opportunities of turning to the pre-modern world to address contemporary problems. To do so it compares Maarten Prak’s approach to practical citizenship in Citizens without nations with Jurgen Habermas’s infamous evocation of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’. While different in important respects – not least in terms of the kind of historical citizenship they recover and the methods by which they do it – Pra…
Where Was the Coffee in Early Modern England
Intoxicants and the invention of 'consumption
In 1600 the word 'consumption' was a term of medical pathology describing the 'wasting, petrification of things'. By 1700 it was also a term of economic discourse: 'In commodities, the value rises as its quantity is less and vent greater, which depends upon it being preferred in its consumption'. The article traces the emergence of this key category of economic analysis to debates over the economy in the 1620s and subsequent disputes over the exc…
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland: Essays in Honour of John Walter
Revel, Riot and Rebellion and The Social History of Politics
Reading Revel, Riot and Rebellion now (after first reading it as an undergraduate in 1988), my first impression is that it sits on a cusp. On the one hand, it feels like the end of something, or, m
Introduction: Cultures of Intoxication
Intoxication figures prominently in George Orwell's Animal Farm. In the very first sentence we learn that 'Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes'. 1 It is this drink-induced negligence that allows the animals to gather in the barn to hear Old Major give his prophetic diatribe against humanity. Old Major concludes his rousing speech by warning the assembled animals…
Intoxication and Society
Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England
The Semantics of ‘Peace’ in Early Modern England
This paper begins to consider the meanings of a word that was ubiquitous in early modern culture, but which has been surprisingly neglected by historians. Focusing on printed sources and taking advantage of recent advances in digital technology, it outlines the changing uses of ‘peace’ between 1500 and 1700 and its predominant meanings at particular moments in time. The paper suggests that while these meanings were clearly derived from Christian …
CHRIS R. Kyle. Theater of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England
Journal Article Chris R. Kyle. Theater of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England. Get access Chris R. Kyle. Theater of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England.Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2012. Pp. xi, 276. Cloth $60.00, e-book $60.00. Phil Withington Phil Withington University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histori…
Tumbled into the dirt”: Wit and incivility in early modern England
This paper considers notions of “wit” in early modern England. It deploys quantitative methodologies to trace the term’s general discursive importance over time; it also looks at the use and conceptualisation of the term by canonical writers — Robert Greene and William Shakespeare in the 1590s, Thomas Hobbes in the 1650s, and the “libertines” of the Restoration era. The paper argues that whereas cultural and social historians have tended to regar…
Introduction—Citizens and Soldiers: The Renaissance Context
This introduction has two concerns. It outlines how urban citizens and professional soldiers have been relatively neglected by social historians of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the wider world and shows why both social groups should be taken much more seriously. It then traces the cultural antecedents which shaped idealizations of citizens and soldiers in Britain, Ireland and the wider world from the later sixteenth century. Recent accounts ha…
Intoxicants and Society in Early Modern England
The article considers the rapid increase in the English market for alcohol and tobacco in the 1620s and the set of concurrent influences shaping their consumption. It suggests that intoxicants were not merely a source of solace for 'the poor' or the lubricant of traditional community, as historians often imply. Rather, the growth in the market for beer, wine, and tobacco was driven by those affluent social groups regarded as the legitimate govern…
‘For This is True or Els i do Lye’
Citizens, Soldiers and Urban Culture in Restoration England
The article unpacks the circumstances surrounding a riot in York Minster in February 1686, exploring the social and political dynamics of the violence and emphasising the communal affiliations and loyalties of those involved. It contextualises the riot in terms of the relationship between citizens and freemen of York on the one hand and soldiers garrisoned in the city on the other, suggesting that these sources of social identity served as a pali…
Immigrants and the Industries of London 1500–1700
Lien Bich Luu. Immigrants and the Industries of London 1500–1700. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. 366 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0330-X.. - Volume 60 Issue 1
Company and sociability in early modern England
St Albans 1650–1700: A Thoroughfare Town and Its People
J. T. Smith and M. A. North, eds. St Albans 1650–1700: A Thoroughfare Town and Its People. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2003. xvi + 264 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. chron. bibl. $34.95. ISBN: 0-9542189-3-0. - Volume 59 Issue 1
Company and sociability in early modern England
Introduction: Cultures of Intoxication
Intoxication figures prominently in George Orwell's Animal Farm. In the very first sentence we learn that 'Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes'. 1 It is this drink-induced negligence that allows the animals to gather in the barn to hear Old Major give his prophetic diatribe against humanity. Old Major concludes his rousing speech by warning the assembled animals…
Intoxicants and Society in Early Modern England
The article considers the rapid increase in the English market for alcohol and tobacco in the 1620s and the set of concurrent influences shaping their consumption. It suggests that intoxicants were not merely a source of solace for 'the poor' or the lubricant of traditional community, as historians often imply. Rather, the growth in the market for beer, wine, and tobacco was driven by those affluent social groups regarded as the legitimate govern…
Citizens, Soldiers and Urban Culture in Restoration England
The article unpacks the circumstances surrounding a riot in York Minster in February 1686, exploring the social and political dynamics of the violence and emphasising the communal affiliations and loyalties of those involved. It contextualises the riot in terms of the relationship between citizens and freemen of York on the one hand and soldiers garrisoned in the city on the other, suggesting that these sources of social identity served as a pali…
Addiction, Intoxicants, and the Humoral Body
Taking the humoral body as its spatial focus, this article considers how medical writers and practitioners engaged with ‘intoxicants’ both in terms of the prescription of medicines and in the conceptualization of compulsive consumption – or what is often styled by modern practitioners as ‘addiction’. Focusing in the first instance on the compilers of vernacular pharmacopoeia – compilations of medical ingredients and techniques – the article argue…
The Semantics of ‘Peace’ in Early Modern England
This paper begins to consider the meanings of a word that was ubiquitous in early modern culture, but which has been surprisingly neglected by historians. Focusing on printed sources and taking advantage of recent advances in digital technology, it outlines the changing uses of ‘peace’ between 1500 and 1700 and its predominant meanings at particular moments in time. The paper suggests that while these meanings were clearly derived from Christian …
Introduction—Citizens and Soldiers: The Renaissance Context
This introduction has two concerns. It outlines how urban citizens and professional soldiers have been relatively neglected by social historians of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the wider world and shows why both social groups should be taken much more seriously. It then traces the cultural antecedents which shaped idealizations of citizens and soldiers in Britain, Ireland and the wider world from the later sixteenth century. Recent accounts ha…
Where Was the Coffee in Early Modern England
Intoxicants and the invention of 'consumption
In 1600 the word 'consumption' was a term of medical pathology describing the 'wasting, petrification of things'. By 1700 it was also a term of economic discourse: 'In commodities, the value rises as its quantity is less and vent greater, which depends upon it being preferred in its consumption'. The article traces the emergence of this key category of economic analysis to debates over the economy in the 1620s and subsequent disputes over the exc…
Views From the Bridge: Revolution and Restoration in Seventeenth-Century York
VIEWS FROM THE BRIDGE: REVOLUTION AND RESTORATION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY YORK Get access Phil Withington Phil Withington University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 170, Issue 1, February 2001, Pages 121–151, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/170.1.121 Published: 01 February 2001
Views From the Bridge: Revolution and Restoration in Seventeenth-Century York
VIEWS FROM THE BRIDGE: REVOLUTION AND RESTORATION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY YORK Get access Phil Withington Phil Withington University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 170, Issue 1, February 2001, Pages 121–151, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/170.1.121 Published: 01 February 2001
St Albans 1650–1700: A Thoroughfare Town and Its People
J. T. Smith and M. A. North, eds. St Albans 1650–1700: A Thoroughfare Town and Its People. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2003. xvi + 264 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. chron. bibl. $34.95. ISBN: 0-9542189-3-0. - Volume 59 Issue 1
Immigrants and the Industries of London 1500–1700
Lien Bich Luu. Immigrants and the Industries of London 1500–1700. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. 366 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0330-X.. - Volume 60 Issue 1
Company and sociability in early modern England
Citizens, Soldiers and Urban Culture in Restoration England
The article unpacks the circumstances surrounding a riot in York Minster in February 1686, exploring the social and political dynamics of the violence and emphasising the communal affiliations and loyalties of those involved. It contextualises the riot in terms of the relationship between citizens and freemen of York on the one hand and soldiers garrisoned in the city on the other, suggesting that these sources of social identity served as a pali…
‘For This is True or Els i do Lye’
Tumbled into the dirt”: Wit and incivility in early modern England
This paper considers notions of “wit” in early modern England. It deploys quantitative methodologies to trace the term’s general discursive importance over time; it also looks at the use and conceptualisation of the term by canonical writers — Robert Greene and William Shakespeare in the 1590s, Thomas Hobbes in the 1650s, and the “libertines” of the Restoration era. The paper argues that whereas cultural and social historians have tended to regar…
Introduction—Citizens and Soldiers: The Renaissance Context
This introduction has two concerns. It outlines how urban citizens and professional soldiers have been relatively neglected by social historians of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the wider world and shows why both social groups should be taken much more seriously. It then traces the cultural antecedents which shaped idealizations of citizens and soldiers in Britain, Ireland and the wider world from the later sixteenth century. Recent accounts ha…
Intoxicants and Society in Early Modern England
The article considers the rapid increase in the English market for alcohol and tobacco in the 1620s and the set of concurrent influences shaping their consumption. It suggests that intoxicants were not merely a source of solace for 'the poor' or the lubricant of traditional community, as historians often imply. Rather, the growth in the market for beer, wine, and tobacco was driven by those affluent social groups regarded as the legitimate govern…
Intoxication and Society
Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England
The Semantics of ‘Peace’ in Early Modern England
This paper begins to consider the meanings of a word that was ubiquitous in early modern culture, but which has been surprisingly neglected by historians. Focusing on printed sources and taking advantage of recent advances in digital technology, it outlines the changing uses of ‘peace’ between 1500 and 1700 and its predominant meanings at particular moments in time. The paper suggests that while these meanings were clearly derived from Christian …
CHRIS R. Kyle. Theater of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England
Journal Article Chris R. Kyle. Theater of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England. Get access Chris R. Kyle. Theater of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England.Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2012. Pp. xi, 276. Cloth $60.00, e-book $60.00. Phil Withington Phil Withington University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histori…
Introduction: Cultures of Intoxication
Intoxication figures prominently in George Orwell's Animal Farm. In the very first sentence we learn that 'Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes'. 1 It is this drink-induced negligence that allows the animals to gather in the barn to hear Old Major give his prophetic diatribe against humanity. Old Major concludes his rousing speech by warning the assembled animals…
Revel, Riot and Rebellion and The Social History of Politics
Reading Revel, Riot and Rebellion now (after first reading it as an undergraduate in 1988), my first impression is that it sits on a cusp. On the one hand, it feels like the end of something, or, m
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland: Essays in Honour of John Walter
Pre-Modern Citizenship: An Ancient Concept for the Modern World
This article discusses the challenges and opportunities of turning to the pre-modern world to address contemporary problems. To do so it compares Maarten Prak’s approach to practical citizenship in Citizens without nations with Jurgen Habermas’s infamous evocation of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’. While different in important respects – not least in terms of the kind of historical citizenship they recover and the methods by which they do it – Pra…
Where Was the Coffee in Early Modern England
Intoxicants and the invention of 'consumption
In 1600 the word 'consumption' was a term of medical pathology describing the 'wasting, petrification of things'. By 1700 it was also a term of economic discourse: 'In commodities, the value rises as its quantity is less and vent greater, which depends upon it being preferred in its consumption'. The article traces the emergence of this key category of economic analysis to debates over the economy in the 1620s and subsequent disputes over the exc…
Introduction to Intoxicants and Early Modern European Globalization
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Addiction, Intoxicants, and the Humoral Body
Taking the humoral body as its spatial focus, this article considers how medical writers and practitioners engaged with ‘intoxicants’ both in terms of the prescription of medicines and in the conceptualization of compulsive consumption – or what is often styled by modern practitioners as ‘addiction’. Focusing in the first instance on the compilers of vernacular pharmacopoeia – compilations of medical ingredients and techniques – the article argue…
Remaking the Drunkard in Early Stuart England
This article traces the changing semantics of drunkard in English during the first half of the seventeenth century. Combining methods of “distant reading” (made possible by the Early English Books Online–Text Creation Partnership) and the “close reading” of didactic printed materials, it shows how this venerable Middle English word became unusually prevalent and ideologically charged in the six decades after the ascension of James VI and I to the…
The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia
Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance, attracting enormous amount of critical attention since its first publication in Latin in 1516. This handbook of specially commissioned and original chapters by experts in their respective fields brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about More’s book: in terms of its Renaissance contexts, its utopian legacie…
Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
Volume II charts European urbanism between 700–1850, the millennium during which Europe became the world's most urbanised region. Featuring thirty-six chapters from leading scholars working on all the major linguistic areas of Europe, the volume offers a state-of-the-art survey that explores and explains this transformation, how similar or different such processes were across Europe, and how far it is possible to discern traits that characterise …
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