... absence of ‘mundane materiality’ within these accounts; and consumption as a matter of practice, rather than as an abstract phenomenon in the ‘long’ seventeenth century in Britain (c .1600–1720). In this, it follows Joan Thirsk in her important 1975 Oxford University Ford Lectures, in accepting Jacobean...

... Celia Fiennes Elizabeth Freke Joan Thirsk community collaboration geography Nearly ten years ago, while researching a book on early modern women’s writing, I encountered a seventeenth-century catechism written by a woman named Dorothy Burch. Early English Books Online...