Richard T Vann
Biographic Data
| ID | 206956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard T Vann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard T |
| FAMILY NAME | Vann |
| SIGNATURE | VANN R T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Historians and Moral Evaluations
In dem Gebiet der Geschichte liegt die ganze moralische Welt.-SchillerABSTRACTThe reappearance of the question of moral judgments by historians makes a reappraisal of the issues timely. Almost all that has been written on the subject addresses only the propriety of moral judgments (or morally charged language) in the written texts historians produce. However, historians have to make moral choices when selecting a subject upon which to write; and …
Mr. Dening's Good Language
Book reviewed in this article: Performances , by Greg Dening
Unnatural infertility, or, whatever happened in Colyton? Some reflections on English population history from family reconstitution 1580–1837
It has been more than thirty years since E. A. Wrigley demonstrated, in a still-famous article, that the technique of ‘family reconstitution’, as developed in France by Louis Henry and before then applied only to French parishes and elite groups, could be used in English historical demography. Although English parish registers seldom supply nearly as much detail as found in some French ones, and many registers are incomplete owing to an interrupt…
The Reception of Hayden White
Evaluation of the influence of Hayden White on the theory of history ismade difficult by his preference for the essay form, valued for its experimental character, and by the need to find comparable data. A quantitative study of citations of his work in English and foreign-language journals, 1973-1993, reveals that although historians were prominent among early readers of Metahistory, few historical journals reviewed White'stwo subsequent collecti…
Commoners, Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820
Friends in Life and Death: The British and Irish Quakers in the Demographic Transition, 1650-1900
Patients, Power, and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
Introduction 2. Everyone their own physician 3. The marketplace of medicine 4. charity universal? 5. The client 6. The abdication of the governors 7. Surgeons and the medicalization of the hospital 8. The patient's perspective 9. The reform of popular medicine 10. Conclusions Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865
Time and Narrative
Explanation in Social History. Christopher Lloyd
Historians' Words and Things
Louis Mink's Linguistic Turn
This is an essay in the history of ideas, in which I attempt to trace the development of Louis Mink's philosophy of history, beginning with his classic essay The Autonomy of Historical Understanding [1965] and culminating in Narrative Form as a Cognitive Instrument [1976]. Reconstruction of the development of Mink's thinking presents a number of methodological difficulties, even for someone who knew him well. Much of Mink's writing was occasional…
The invention of English individualism: Alan Macfarlane and the modernization of pre‐modern England∗
(1983). The invention of English individualism: Alan Macfarlane and the modernization of pre‐modern England. Social History: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 345-363
The Youth of Centuries of Childhood
Centuries of Childhood was first published in 1960,1 which means it has just completed its twenty-first year. It is a book much concerned with the way the stages of life are, and are not, divided; and this makes it particularly appropriate, now that it has just crossed the traditional dividing line into adulthood, to look back on the twenty-one years of its infancy and youth, and also to speculate on its prospects for further longevity. The biogr…
Wills and the Family in an English Town: Banbury, 1550-1800
The Shapes of Time: A New Look at the Philosophy of History. Peter Munz
Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act
Journal Article Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act and Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England Get access Thompson E.P., Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act. New York, Pantheon Books, 1975. 313 pp. $15.Hay Douglaset al. , Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. New York, Pantheon Books, 1975. 352 pp. $15. Richard T. Vann Richard T. Vann Professor of History and Lett…
The Rhetoric of Social History
Journal Article The Rhetoric of Social History Get access Richard T. Vann Richard T. Vann Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 10, Issue 2, Winter 1976, Pages 221–236, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/10.2.221 Published: 01 December 1976
Quaker Family Life
William Penn and Early Quakerism
Journal Article William Penn and Early Quakerism. By Melvin B. Endy, Jr. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. viii + 410 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $17.50.) Get access Richard T. Vann Richard T. Vann Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 2, September 1974, Pages 459–460, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903975 Published: 01 Sept…
Literacy in Seventeenth-Century England: Some Hearth-Tax Evidence
Literacy in Seventeenth-Century England: Some Hearth-Tax Evidence The degree to which the English people were literate in the century in which they passed through their greatest political upheavals is clearly a salient question in studying the mobilization of political opinion and the overthrow of authority, yet only recently have historians begun to study it. There is the obvious difficulty that literacy, in the sense of the ability to read flue…
For the Reputation of Truth: Politics, Religion, and Conflict among the Pennsylvania Quakers, 1750-1800
The Social Development of English Quakerism, 1655-1755
The Social Development of English Quakerism, 1655-1755
The Social Development of English Quakerism, 1655-1755
Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act
Journal Article Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act and Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England Get access Thompson E.P., Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act. New York, Pantheon Books, 1975. 313 pp. $15.Hay Douglaset al. , Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. New York, Pantheon Books, 1975. 352 pp. $15. Richard T. Vann Richard T. Vann Professor of History and Lett…
The Reception of Hayden White
Evaluation of the influence of Hayden White on the theory of history ismade difficult by his preference for the essay form, valued for its experimental character, and by the need to find comparable data. A quantitative study of citations of his work in English and foreign-language journals, 1973-1993, reveals that although historians were prominent among early readers of Metahistory, few historical journals reviewed White'stwo subsequent collecti…
Wills and the Family in an English Town: Banbury, 1550-1800
Historians and Moral Evaluations
In dem Gebiet der Geschichte liegt die ganze moralische Welt.-SchillerABSTRACTThe reappearance of the question of moral judgments by historians makes a reappraisal of the issues timely. Almost all that has been written on the subject addresses only the propriety of moral judgments (or morally charged language) in the written texts historians produce. However, historians have to make moral choices when selecting a subject upon which to write; and …
Louis Mink's Linguistic Turn
This is an essay in the history of ideas, in which I attempt to trace the development of Louis Mink's philosophy of history, beginning with his classic essay The Autonomy of Historical Understanding [1965] and culminating in Narrative Form as a Cognitive Instrument [1976]. Reconstruction of the development of Mink's thinking presents a number of methodological difficulties, even for someone who knew him well. Much of Mink's writing was occasional…
The Youth of Centuries of Childhood
Centuries of Childhood was first published in 1960,1 which means it has just completed its twenty-first year. It is a book much concerned with the way the stages of life are, and are not, divided; and this makes it particularly appropriate, now that it has just crossed the traditional dividing line into adulthood, to look back on the twenty-one years of its infancy and youth, and also to speculate on its prospects for further longevity. The biogr…
History and Demography
Fear of, and animosity toward, history is one of the facts of contemporary scholarly life. To a considerable degree, it arises from competition for resources for research -a competition carried on with rhetorical and conceptual weapons. Since most projects are considerably more expensive than individual research efforts, the rhetoric in which they are described must possess the power to move foundations, and their projectors have seldom erred in …
The Later Life of Gerrard Winstanley
The Digger Gerrard Winstanley published his last pamphlet in 1652. Almost three centuries passed before his collected works were edited by George H. Sabine and made subject of a book by D. W. Petegorsky.1 But neither Sabine nor Petegorsky could do much to dispel obscurity cloaking life of Winstanley after his retirement as a pamphleteer. The only glimpse of Winstanley was in 1660, when he appeared as a plaintiff in chancery and as a tithe-gathere…
Unnatural infertility, or, whatever happened in Colyton? Some reflections on English population history from family reconstitution 1580–1837
It has been more than thirty years since E. A. Wrigley demonstrated, in a still-famous article, that the technique of ‘family reconstitution’, as developed in France by Louis Henry and before then applied only to French parishes and elite groups, could be used in English historical demography. Although English parish registers seldom supply nearly as much detail as found in some French ones, and many registers are incomplete owing to an interrupt…
The invention of English individualism: Alan Macfarlane and the modernization of pre‐modern England∗
(1983). The invention of English individualism: Alan Macfarlane and the modernization of pre‐modern England. Social History: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 345-363
The Rhetoric of Social History
Journal Article The Rhetoric of Social History Get access Richard T. Vann Richard T. Vann Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 10, Issue 2, Winter 1976, Pages 221–236, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/10.2.221 Published: 01 December 1976
Literacy in Seventeenth-Century England: Some Hearth-Tax Evidence
Literacy in Seventeenth-Century England: Some Hearth-Tax Evidence The degree to which the English people were literate in the century in which they passed through their greatest political upheavals is clearly a salient question in studying the mobilization of political opinion and the overthrow of authority, yet only recently have historians begun to study it. There is the obvious difficulty that literacy, in the sense of the ability to read flue…
Quakerism and the Social Structure in the Interregnum
Journal Article QUAKERISM AND THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN THE INTERREGNUM Get access Richard T. Vann Richard T. Vann Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 43, Issue 1, May 1969, Pages 71–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/43.1.71 Published: 01 May 1969
Nurture and Conversion in the Early Quaker Family
A technique of historical demography, family reconstitution, which is based on reordering parish registers, offers insights for the historian of the family. It shows that the first converts to Quakerism were overwhelmingly drawn from younger children of mobile families, probably because of their inability to inherit shops or lands and thus succeed their parents. Within 100 years 80 to 90 percent of Quakers were children of Quakers. Quaker fathers…
The Free Anglo-Saxons: A Historical Myth
Historians have been reluctant to give obsolete historical theories much attention, except those of their colleagues. Live historiographical issues call up the resources of pugnacity which distinguish the tribe; but the interpretive conflicts of the past have until quite lately been passed over in silence. Thus philosophers, devoid of such inhibitions, have made everyone familiar with the philosophic background of Leveller thought, while its hist…
The Free Anglo-Saxons: A Historical Myth
Historians have been reluctant to give obsolete historical theories much attention, except those of their colleagues. Live historiographical issues call up the resources of pugnacity which distinguish the tribe; but the interpretive conflicts of the past have until quite lately been passed over in silence. Thus philosophers, devoid of such inhibitions, have made everyone familiar with the philosophic background of Leveller thought, while its hist…
The Governance of Mediaeval England from the Conquest to Magna Carta
The Later Life of Gerrard Winstanley
The Digger Gerrard Winstanley published his last pamphlet in 1652. Almost three centuries passed before his collected works were edited by George H. Sabine and made subject of a book by D. W. Petegorsky.1 But neither Sabine nor Petegorsky could do much to dispel obscurity cloaking life of Winstanley after his retirement as a pamphleteer. The only glimpse of Winstanley was in 1660, when he appeared as a plaintiff in chancery and as a tithe-gathere…
The Revolution of the Saints. A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics
Quakerism and the Social Structure in the Interregnum
Journal Article QUAKERISM AND THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN THE INTERREGNUM Get access Richard T. Vann Richard T. Vann Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 43, Issue 1, May 1969, Pages 71–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/43.1.71 Published: 01 May 1969
History and Demography
Fear of, and animosity toward, history is one of the facts of contemporary scholarly life. To a considerable degree, it arises from competition for resources for research -a competition carried on with rhetorical and conceptual weapons. Since most projects are considerably more expensive than individual research efforts, the rhetoric in which they are described must possess the power to move foundations, and their projectors have seldom erred in …
Nurture and Conversion in the Early Quaker Family
A technique of historical demography, family reconstitution, which is based on reordering parish registers, offers insights for the historian of the family. It shows that the first converts to Quakerism were overwhelmingly drawn from younger children of mobile families, probably because of their inability to inherit shops or lands and thus succeed their parents. Within 100 years 80 to 90 percent of Quakers were children of Quakers. Quaker fathers…
The Social Development of English Quakerism, 1655-1755
The Social Development of English Quakerism, 1655-1755
The Social Development of English Quakerism, 1655-1755
For the Reputation of Truth: Politics, Religion, and Conflict among the Pennsylvania Quakers, 1750-1800
William Penn and Early Quakerism
Journal Article William Penn and Early Quakerism. By Melvin B. Endy, Jr. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. viii + 410 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $17.50.) Get access Richard T. Vann Richard T. Vann Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 2, September 1974, Pages 459–460, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903975 Published: 01 Sept…
Literacy in Seventeenth-Century England: Some Hearth-Tax Evidence
Literacy in Seventeenth-Century England: Some Hearth-Tax Evidence The degree to which the English people were literate in the century in which they passed through their greatest political upheavals is clearly a salient question in studying the mobilization of political opinion and the overthrow of authority, yet only recently have historians begun to study it. There is the obvious difficulty that literacy, in the sense of the ability to read flue…
Quaker Family Life
The Rhetoric of Social History
Journal Article The Rhetoric of Social History Get access Richard T. Vann Richard T. Vann Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 10, Issue 2, Winter 1976, Pages 221–236, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/10.2.221 Published: 01 December 1976
Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act
Journal Article Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act and Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England Get access Thompson E.P., Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act. New York, Pantheon Books, 1975. 313 pp. $15.Hay Douglaset al. , Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. New York, Pantheon Books, 1975. 352 pp. $15. Richard T. Vann Richard T. Vann Professor of History and Lett…
Wills and the Family in an English Town: Banbury, 1550-1800
The Shapes of Time: A New Look at the Philosophy of History. Peter Munz
The Youth of Centuries of Childhood
Centuries of Childhood was first published in 1960,1 which means it has just completed its twenty-first year. It is a book much concerned with the way the stages of life are, and are not, divided; and this makes it particularly appropriate, now that it has just crossed the traditional dividing line into adulthood, to look back on the twenty-one years of its infancy and youth, and also to speculate on its prospects for further longevity. The biogr…
The invention of English individualism: Alan Macfarlane and the modernization of pre‐modern England∗
(1983). The invention of English individualism: Alan Macfarlane and the modernization of pre‐modern England. Social History: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 345-363
Louis Mink's Linguistic Turn
This is an essay in the history of ideas, in which I attempt to trace the development of Louis Mink's philosophy of history, beginning with his classic essay The Autonomy of Historical Understanding [1965] and culminating in Narrative Form as a Cognitive Instrument [1976]. Reconstruction of the development of Mink's thinking presents a number of methodological difficulties, even for someone who knew him well. Much of Mink's writing was occasional…
Historians' Words and Things
Time and Narrative
Explanation in Social History. Christopher Lloyd
Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865
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