Culture, Faith, and Philanthropy
Londoners and Provincial Reform in Early Modern England
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave USA
Published:20th Mar '13
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JOSEPH P. WARD is Assistant Professor of History, University of Mississippi, USA.
Empowered by new wealth and by their faith, early modern Londoners began to use philanthropy to assert their cultural authority in distant parts of the nation. Culture, Faith, and Philanthropy analyzes how disputes between London and provincial authorities over such benefactions demonstrated the often tense relations between center and periphery.Empowered by new wealth and by their faith, early modern Londoners began to use philanthropy to assert their cultural authority in distant parts of the nation. Culture, Faith, and Philanthropy analyzes how disputes between London and provincial authorities over such benefactions demonstrated the often tense relations between center and periphery.
"[Ward] provides us with a thorough and well-crafted study that demonstrates the importance of metropolitan charity in the social and cultural changes of the early modern period." - Reviews in History
ISBN: 9780312293864
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 3943g
215 pages