The Family Life of Ralph Josselin

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HISTORY
The Family Life of Ralph Josselin
Ralph Josselin. vicar of Earls Colne in Essex from 1641 lo his death in 1683, kepi for almost forty years a remarkably detailed account of his life—his mental and emotional world as well as his activities. Few diaries from this period afford such a rounded picture of a family from so many aspects. Alan Macfarlane, a historian and lecturer in social anthropology at Cambridge University, explores through the diary Josselin's life as farmer, businessman. Puritan clergyman, neighbour, husband, and father, providing a unique view of a seventeenth-century life from the inside.
"The great merit of Macfariane's book is that it poses questions; it teaches historians to look very much more closely, and in new ways, at familiar evidence; il brings familiar relationships into the centre of scrutiny; and it offers, in a significant way. the unit of one man's life, and of one man's economic fortunes, as a focus of study." —E. P. lYxomiisoti. Midland... Tovább

Fülszöveg

HISTORY
The Family Life of Ralph Josselin
Ralph Josselin. vicar of Earls Colne in Essex from 1641 lo his death in 1683, kepi for almost forty years a remarkably detailed account of his life—his mental and emotional world as well as his activities. Few diaries from this period afford such a rounded picture of a family from so many aspects. Alan Macfarlane, a historian and lecturer in social anthropology at Cambridge University, explores through the diary Josselin's life as farmer, businessman. Puritan clergyman, neighbour, husband, and father, providing a unique view of a seventeenth-century life from the inside.
"The great merit of Macfariane's book is that it poses questions; it teaches historians to look very much more closely, and in new ways, at familiar evidence; il brings familiar relationships into the centre of scrutiny; and it offers, in a significant way. the unit of one man's life, and of one man's economic fortunes, as a focus of study." —E. P. lYxomiisoti. Midland History
¦ "His two books [The Family Life of Ralph Josselin and Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England] establish Alan Macfarlane as a young historian who has already deepened our understanding of seventeenth-century English society."
—Christopher Hill. /?r/uimonrr Quarterly
"Ralph Josselin's diary when subjected to Macfariane's anthropological tools provides major insights into the life of a yeoman-priest, his community, and the visions peculiar to that lost world."—John J. Waters. New England Quarterly
"Historians will find the book valuable as well as enormously enjoyable."
—D. H. Pcnningxon. American Historical Review
"By any standards, however exacting, this is a remarkable addition to seventeenth-century studies— a crisply written and penetrating study of a man's
mind, circumstances, and environment____This is social history with the
politics—and the rest of the blood, sweat, and tears—very much left in, as it should be. but all too rarely is." —Times (London) Literary Supplement, ^
Cover design by David Lunn
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978039300849490000 Vissza