Joan Kent
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Kent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kent |
| SIGNATURE | KENT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sweet Briar College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Changing Patterns of Poor Relief in Some English Rural Parishes Circa 1650–1750
This article uses court records, overseers' accounts, pauper examinations and other records from several counties, including Huntingdonshire and Staffordshire, to look at the experiences of poor relief in early modern England. It shows the varied circumstances under which the poor ‘encountered’ the poor law in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, highlighting the often contradictory attitudes that poor people encountered. More than thi…
The Rural ‘Middling Sort’ in Early Modern England, circa 1640–1740
A middle class ‘did not begin to discover itself (except perhaps in London) until the last three decades of the [eighteenth] century’. So wrote E. P. Thompson in the 1970s in a now-famous analysis which divided English society into patricians and plebeians, and which, along with J. H. Hexter's ‘The Myth of the Middle Class in Tudor England’, largely eliminated ‘middle class’ from the vocabulary of early modern English historians. During the past …
The centre and the localities
Recent studies have challenged older views that the British state of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was rather powerless. However, such studies have focused largely on the executive, and particularly on the development of centralized revenue departments, or on the role of county elites in implementing state policies in the localities. This essay considers state formation as it was manifested at the base of the governmental s…
The English Village Constable, 1580-1642
Dogberry: This is your charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are to bid any man stand, in the prince's name. Watch: How if a' will not stand? Dogberry: Why, then take no note of him, but let him go; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave. (Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Scene iii) Modern historians who have described the English village constable of the late sixteenth and early sevente…
Attitudes of Members of the House of Commons to the Regulation of 'Personal Conduct' in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
Attitudes of Members of the House of Commons to the Regulation of ‘Personal Conduct’ in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England Joan Kent Joan Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 46, Issue 113, May 1973, Pages 41–71, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1973.tb01478.x Published: 12 October 2007
Changing Patterns of Poor Relief in Some English Rural Parishes Circa 1650–1750
This article uses court records, overseers' accounts, pauper examinations and other records from several counties, including Huntingdonshire and Staffordshire, to look at the experiences of poor relief in early modern England. It shows the varied circumstances under which the poor ‘encountered’ the poor law in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, highlighting the often contradictory attitudes that poor people encountered. More than thi…
The centre and the localities
Recent studies have challenged older views that the British state of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was rather powerless. However, such studies have focused largely on the executive, and particularly on the development of centralized revenue departments, or on the role of county elites in implementing state policies in the localities. This essay considers state formation as it was manifested at the base of the governmental s…
The Rural ‘Middling Sort’ in Early Modern England, circa 1640–1740
A middle class ‘did not begin to discover itself (except perhaps in London) until the last three decades of the [eighteenth] century’. So wrote E. P. Thompson in the 1970s in a now-famous analysis which divided English society into patricians and plebeians, and which, along with J. H. Hexter's ‘The Myth of the Middle Class in Tudor England’, largely eliminated ‘middle class’ from the vocabulary of early modern English historians. During the past …
The English Village Constable, 1580-1642
Dogberry: This is your charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are to bid any man stand, in the prince's name. Watch: How if a' will not stand? Dogberry: Why, then take no note of him, but let him go; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave. (Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Scene iii) Modern historians who have described the English village constable of the late sixteenth and early sevente…
Attitudes of Members of the House of Commons to the Regulation of 'Personal Conduct' in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
Attitudes of Members of the House of Commons to the Regulation of ‘Personal Conduct’ in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England Joan Kent Joan Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 46, Issue 113, May 1973, Pages 41–71, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1973.tb01478.x Published: 12 October 2007
Attitudes of Members of the House of Commons to the Regulation of 'Personal Conduct' in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
Attitudes of Members of the House of Commons to the Regulation of ‘Personal Conduct’ in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England Joan Kent Joan Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 46, Issue 113, May 1973, Pages 41–71, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1973.tb01478.x Published: 12 October 2007
The English Village Constable, 1580-1642
Dogberry: This is your charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are to bid any man stand, in the prince's name. Watch: How if a' will not stand? Dogberry: Why, then take no note of him, but let him go; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave. (Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Scene iii) Modern historians who have described the English village constable of the late sixteenth and early sevente…
The centre and the localities
Recent studies have challenged older views that the British state of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was rather powerless. However, such studies have focused largely on the executive, and particularly on the development of centralized revenue departments, or on the role of county elites in implementing state policies in the localities. This essay considers state formation as it was manifested at the base of the governmental s…
The Rural ‘Middling Sort’ in Early Modern England, circa 1640–1740
A middle class ‘did not begin to discover itself (except perhaps in London) until the last three decades of the [eighteenth] century’. So wrote E. P. Thompson in the 1970s in a now-famous analysis which divided English society into patricians and plebeians, and which, along with J. H. Hexter's ‘The Myth of the Middle Class in Tudor England’, largely eliminated ‘middle class’ from the vocabulary of early modern English historians. During the past …
Changing Patterns of Poor Relief in Some English Rural Parishes Circa 1650–1750
This article uses court records, overseers' accounts, pauper examinations and other records from several counties, including Huntingdonshire and Staffordshire, to look at the experiences of poor relief in early modern England. It shows the varied circumstances under which the poor ‘encountered’ the poor law in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, highlighting the often contradictory attitudes that poor people encountered. More than thi…
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