Publication Type
Book Review
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
6-2014
Abstract
This highly readable monograph by Eleanor Hubbard is a first-rate addition to a historiography that has sought to understand how the rigid gender ideals evidenced in early modern prescriptive literature affected ordinary people by investigating consistory court depositions, building on a line of investigation popularized by Martin Ingram and Susan Amussen. Hubbard’s thoroughly researched and richly detailed attempt at recreating the lives of London’s female inhabitants is largely, though not exclusively, based on London’s church court deposition books from 1570 to 1640 that also provided inspiration for Laura Gowing in Domestic Dangers (1998).
Discipline
European History
Research Areas
Integrative Research Areas
Areas of Excellence
Sustainability
Publication
European History Quarterly
Volume
44
Issue
3
First Page
541
Last Page
543
ISSN
0265-6914
Identifier
10.1177/0265691414537193
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Citation
WILLIAMSON, Fiona.
Eleanor Hubbard, City women: Money, sex, and the social order in early modern London. (2014). European History Quarterly. 44, (3), 541-543.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/247
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/0265691414537193