Anthony Fletcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Fletcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Fletcher |
| SIGNATURE | FLETCHER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Death of Charlotte Bloomfield in 1828: Family Roles in an Evangelical Household
A small collection of family papers provides intimate and illuminating material on the illness and death of a much-loved teenager. Charlotte Bloomfield was the daughter of Lord Benjamin Bloomfield, confidant of the Prince Regent and from 1823 British ambassador at Stockholm. In 1825 Bloomfield had Charlotte painted with pretty golden curls by the fashionable miniaturist Anne Mee (Fig. 1). She holds her pet rabbit. Her story has rich resonances fo…
Patriotism, the Great War and the Decline of Victorian Manliness
This article considers patriotism and manliness in a long chronology from the Victorian period to the 1930s. It begins with a discussion of Victorian manliness, built upon Christian gentility and Social Darwinism. It argues that the Great War activated traditional notions of patriotism but then tested them to the utmost. Nothing could prepare men adequately for the Western Front, where they learnt about fear and in a good many cases shell shock. …
Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front
Decorating the ‘Godly’ Household: Religious Art in Post‐Reformation Britain – By Tara Hamling
The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660–1800 – By Susan E. Whyman
Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England – By Amanda Vickery
Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home – By Susan Hardman Moore
Patriotism, Identity and Commemoration: New Light on the Great War from the Papers of Major Reggie Chenevix Trench
This article builds upon the recent historiography of the First World War to illuminate three aspects of the war. As a case study, it uses the papers of Major Reggie Chenevix Trench, a young territorial officer who first trained men for leadership on the western front and then served there himself from February 1917 until he was killed the following March. It contends that the springs of patriotism lay in a Victorian notion of manhood, which was …
Englandpast.net’: A framework for the social history of England
This article reviews the progress made in research and writing on English social history since the nineteen–twenties and proposes a framework for the future work of the Victoria County History. This is built around six principal concepts: three of these—space, gender and order—help to unravel the structures within which people have lived; while three—custom, responsibility and politics—provide an entry into the dynamics of the English social past
Courses in Politeness: The Upbringing and Experiences of Five Teenage Diarists, 1671–1860
The paper examines the upbringing of five teenagers between 1671 and 1860. It is based on close reading of their diaries. It deals with the relationship between these teenagers and their parents, siblings, friends and tutors or governesses. Politeness, it is argued, was a framework of behaviour which, learnt and observed, made sense of social life. For boys it was rooted in a training in the classics; for girls it meant a training in manners and …
Shorter notice. Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural Worlds of the Verneys, 1660-1720. SE Whyman
Shorter notice. A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707: The Double Crown. DL Smith
Journal Article A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707: The Double Crown. DL Smith Get access A Fletcher A Fletcher University of Essex, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 461, April 2000, Page 461, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.461.461 Published: 01 April 2000
Ambition and Failure in Stuart England: The Career of John, First Viscount Scudamore Ian atherton
Journal Article Ambition and Failure in Stuart England: The Career of John, First Viscount Scudamore Ian atherton Get access Anthony Fletcher Anthony Fletcher University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1304–1305, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1304 Published: 01 November 2000
Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500-1800
Manhood, the Male Body, Courtship and the Household in Early Modern England
Little work has been done on early modern masculinity. This article reviews the state of our knowledge on its definition, development and construction. It opens with a consideration of the medical conception of the male body, male appetite and imagination. Key aspects of upbringing and growing up are considered in turn: schooling, early sexual experience and courtship, which tested young men's confidence. Adult maturity was marked by marriage and…
Beyond the Church: Women’s Spiritual Experience at Home and in the Community 1600–1900
The Christian tradition has been elaborated and developed over many centuries in the context of gender, which provides the bedrock and framework of social order, powerfully influencing men and women’s conduct of every aspect of their daily lives. The dynamic relationship between gender and religious experience – a relationship that may at times channel, control, confine, or liberate – is bound to be complex for the historian to unravel. This pape…
Short notices
Adrian Wilson, The Making of Man‐Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660–1770 (1995), xii + 239 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., $75.00/£35.00). Charles Tilly, Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758–1834 (1995), xvi + 476 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., $49.95/£31.50). Paul A. Pickering, Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford (1995), x + 294 (St Martin's Press, New York, $65.00). Robert A. J. McDonald, Mak…
Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500-1800
Gender, Sex and Subordination in England 1500-1800
Journal Article Gender, Sex and Subordination in England 1500–1800 Get access Fletcher Anthony, Gender, Sex and Subordination in England 1500–1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, xxii, 442 pp. $37.50. D.R. Woolf D.R. Woolf Dalhousie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 41, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 167–169, https://doi.org/10.2307/845501 Published…
Gender, Sex & Subordination in England, 1500-1800
Gender, Sex and Subordination in England, 1500-1800
The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade
Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson
In this volume seventeen distinguished historians of early modern Britain pay tribute to an outstanding scholar and teacher. Several present reviews of major areas of debate: of the significance of the regulations which determined the social and legal status of professional actors in Elizabethan England, of Protestant ideas about marriage, of the political significance of the Anglo-Scottish Union, of relations between the Churches of England, Sco…
Prescription and Practice: Protestantism and the Upbringing of Children, 1560-1700
How children should be brought up is an everlasting question that vexed our forefathers just as much as ourselves. The most obvious difference between most of the thinking and writing that goes on about it today and that of the early modern period is that a largely secular approach has replaced a fundamentally and deeply religious one. So it is natural that the historian of this period should ask how and in what ways Protestantism changed things …
Men's Dilemma: The Future of Patriarchy in England 1560–1660
PATRIARCHY was very old when Queen Elizabeth ascended the English throne. Historians have sought its origins in die Old Testament record of the creation of Jewish monotiieism and in the social conditions of Hebrew society. They have explored die contributions of classical Greece and early Christian thinking to its development and evolution. By the time that the Tudor dynasty ruled in England, the institutionalised male dominance over women and ch…
Men's Dilemma: The Future of Patriarchy in England 1560–1660
PATRIARCHY was very old when Queen Elizabeth ascended the English throne. Historians have sought its origins in die Old Testament record of the creation of Jewish monotiieism and in the social conditions of Hebrew society. They have explored die contributions of classical Greece and early Christian thinking to its development and evolution. By the time that the Tudor dynasty ruled in England, the institutionalised male dominance over women and ch…
Patriotism, Identity and Commemoration: New Light on the Great War from the Papers of Major Reggie Chenevix Trench
This article builds upon the recent historiography of the First World War to illuminate three aspects of the war. As a case study, it uses the papers of Major Reggie Chenevix Trench, a young territorial officer who first trained men for leadership on the western front and then served there himself from February 1917 until he was killed the following March. It contends that the springs of patriotism lay in a Victorian notion of manhood, which was …
Manhood, the Male Body, Courtship and the Household in Early Modern England
Little work has been done on early modern masculinity. This article reviews the state of our knowledge on its definition, development and construction. It opens with a consideration of the medical conception of the male body, male appetite and imagination. Key aspects of upbringing and growing up are considered in turn: schooling, early sexual experience and courtship, which tested young men's confidence. Adult maturity was marked by marriage and…
Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500-1800
The Enforcement of the Conventicle Acts 1664–1679
The denominational writers on late Stuart dissent used to put their emphasis upon the heroism and sufferings of forbears in the faith and on cherished works of spiritual autobiography produced under restraint such as John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding and William Penn’s No Cross , No Crown. ’ The most important, and to my mind the most interesting, questions about persecution in this period have therefore gone unasked and unanswered. Aware of the most…
Concern for renewal in the root and branch debates of 1641
The root and branch bill was debated in the house of commons between 27 May and 27 July 1641. The original bill introduced by Sir Edward Dering was short, simply abolishing bishops, deans and chapters with all their dependents. But after the house had wrestled for two months with the business of replacing episcopacy with a new form of church government the bill had grown to more than forty pages. No complete copy of it, as it stood when it was dr…
Patriotism, the Great War and the Decline of Victorian Manliness
This article considers patriotism and manliness in a long chronology from the Victorian period to the 1930s. It begins with a discussion of Victorian manliness, built upon Christian gentility and Social Darwinism. It argues that the Great War activated traditional notions of patriotism but then tested them to the utmost. Nothing could prepare men adequately for the Western Front, where they learnt about fear and in a good many cases shell shock. …
Courses in Politeness: The Upbringing and Experiences of Five Teenage Diarists, 1671–1860
The paper examines the upbringing of five teenagers between 1671 and 1860. It is based on close reading of their diaries. It deals with the relationship between these teenagers and their parents, siblings, friends and tutors or governesses. Politeness, it is argued, was a framework of behaviour which, learnt and observed, made sense of social life. For boys it was rooted in a training in the classics; for girls it meant a training in manners and …
Prescription and Practice: Protestantism and the Upbringing of Children, 1560-1700
How children should be brought up is an everlasting question that vexed our forefathers just as much as ourselves. The most obvious difference between most of the thinking and writing that goes on about it today and that of the early modern period is that a largely secular approach has replaced a fundamentally and deeply religious one. So it is natural that the historian of this period should ask how and in what ways Protestantism changed things …
Parliament and People in Seventeenth-Century England
PARLIAMENT AND PEOPLE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND Get access A. J. Fletcher A. J. Fletcher University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 98, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 151–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/98.1.151 Published: 01 February 1983
Factionalism in Town and Countryside: The Significance of Puritanism and Arminianism
Factionalism in the local communities of Stuart England is a many-sided subject which has hardly been investigated. I am concerned in this paper primarily widi die religious ingredient in local factionalism and in particular with a series of incidents of sustained hostility between clergy and laity, most of which occurred in the decade before the civil war. In every case conflict arose because clergymen were more or less assertively at odds eithe…
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access ANTHONY FLETCHER ANTHONY FLETCHER University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue CCCXLVIII, July 1973, Pages 626-a–626, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVIII.CCCXLVIII.626-a Published: 01 July 1973
A County Community in Peace and War: Sussex, 1600-60
Concern for renewal in the root and branch debates of 1641
The root and branch bill was debated in the house of commons between 27 May and 27 July 1641. The original bill introduced by Sir Edward Dering was short, simply abolishing bishops, deans and chapters with all their dependents. But after the house had wrestled for two months with the business of replacing episcopacy with a new form of church government the bill had grown to more than forty pages. No complete copy of it, as it stood when it was dr…
The Religious Motivation of Cromwell’s Major-Generals
When Oliver Cromwell sent his most trusted lieutenants into the provinces in 1655, the instructions he gave them were wide ranging and the task he set them was enormous. They were to oversee every aspect of local government, prevent conspiracies, remove negligent or scandalous ministers and promote godliness and virtue among the people. No wonder the major-generals felt daunted. John Thurloe, who as secretary-of-state handled their correspondence…
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access ANTHONY FLETCHER ANTHONY FLETCHER University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIV, Issue CCCLXX, January 1979, Pages 181–182, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIV.CCCLXX.181 Published: 01 January 1979
Factionalism in Town and Countryside: The Significance of Puritanism and Arminianism
Factionalism in the local communities of Stuart England is a many-sided subject which has hardly been investigated. I am concerned in this paper primarily widi die religious ingredient in local factionalism and in particular with a series of incidents of sustained hostility between clergy and laity, most of which occurred in the decade before the civil war. In every case conflict arose because clergymen were more or less assertively at odds eithe…
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access ANTHONY FLETCHER ANTHONY FLETCHER University of of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVII, Issue CCCLXXXIV, July 1982, Pages 635-b–636, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVII.CCCLXXXIV.635-b Published: 01 July 1982
The first century of English protestantism and the growth of national identity
Their sense of national identity is not something that men have been in the habit of directly recording. Its strength or weakness, in relation to commitment to international causes or to localist sentiment, can often only be inferred by examining political and religious attitudes and personal behaviour. So far as the early modern period is concerned, the subject is hazardous because groups and individuals must have varied enormously in the extent…
Parliament and People in Seventeenth-Century England
PARLIAMENT AND PEOPLE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND Get access A. J. Fletcher A. J. Fletcher University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 98, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 151–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/98.1.151 Published: 01 February 1983
The Enforcement of the Conventicle Acts 1664–1679
The denominational writers on late Stuart dissent used to put their emphasis upon the heroism and sufferings of forbears in the faith and on cherished works of spiritual autobiography produced under restraint such as John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding and William Penn’s No Cross , No Crown. ’ The most important, and to my mind the most interesting, questions about persecution in this period have therefore gone unasked and unanswered. Aware of the most…
Order and Disorder in Early Modern England
The social history of early modern England has become a lively area of publication and debate. This volume attempts both to take stock of distinct directions in the field and to suggest fresh perspectives on some central aspects of the period. The distinguished contributors bring to bear upon the theme of order and disorder their diversity of experience in the writing of political, religious, social and economic history. They treat a number of pr…
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices ANTHONY FLETCHER ANTHONY FLETCHER University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCCI, October 1986, Pages 983-b–984, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCCI.983-b Published: 01 October 1986
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access ANTHONY FLETCHER ANTHONY FLETCHER University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCXCIX, April 1986, Pages 501–502, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCXCIX.501 Published: 01 April 1986
After the Armada: Elizabethan England and the Struggle for Western Europe, 1588-1595 . R. B. Wernham
New Interpretations of Early Modern England
Reformation and Revolution 1558–1660. By Robert Ashton. (The Paladin History of England.) London: Granada. 1984. xx, 503 pp. £18.00. Authority and Conflict: England 1603–1658. By Derek Hirst. (The New History of England, Volume 4.) London: Edward Arnold. 1986. viii, 390 pp. Hardback £27.50; paperback £9.95. The Emergence of a Nation State: The Commonwealth of England 1529–1660. By Alan G.R. Smith. (Foundations of Modern Britain.) London: Longman.…
New Light on Religion and the English Civil War
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Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access ANTHONY FLETCHER ANTHONY FLETCHER University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIII, Issue CCCCVII, April 1988, Page 498, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIII.CCCCVII.498 Published: 01 April 1988
Society, Politics and Culture: Studies in Early Modern England. Mervyn James
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access ANTHONY FLETCHER ANTHONY FLETCHER University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXIV, January 1990, Pages 189–190, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXIV.189 Published: 01 January 1990
Power, Myths and Realities
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Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson
In this volume seventeen distinguished historians of early modern Britain pay tribute to an outstanding scholar and teacher. Several present reviews of major areas of debate: of the significance of the regulations which determined the social and legal status of professional actors in Elizabethan England, of Protestant ideas about marriage, of the political significance of the Anglo-Scottish Union, of relations between the Churches of England, Sco…
Prescription and Practice: Protestantism and the Upbringing of Children, 1560-1700
How children should be brought up is an everlasting question that vexed our forefathers just as much as ourselves. The most obvious difference between most of the thinking and writing that goes on about it today and that of the early modern period is that a largely secular approach has replaced a fundamentally and deeply religious one. So it is natural that the historian of this period should ask how and in what ways Protestantism changed things …
Men's Dilemma: The Future of Patriarchy in England 1560–1660
PATRIARCHY was very old when Queen Elizabeth ascended the English throne. Historians have sought its origins in die Old Testament record of the creation of Jewish monotiieism and in the social conditions of Hebrew society. They have explored die contributions of classical Greece and early Christian thinking to its development and evolution. By the time that the Tudor dynasty ruled in England, the institutionalised male dominance over women and ch…
Gender, Sex and Subordination in England, 1500-1800
The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade
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