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Coroners’ inquest juries in sixteenth-century England
Juries enabled the participation in local governance of those outside national and regional elites in early modern England. Yet their social range is disputed. We investigate coroners’ inquest juries in a range of communities and compare a sample of 148 juries in eleven counties, featuring 2024 jurors, with tax and muster records. These show that while the rural and urban middling sorts were disproportionately represented, the rich and poor were by no means excluded. As militarily able household heads, many jurors matched the wider demands of ‘respectable masculinity’, and this may be reflected in some of the verdicts they reached.
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The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII
War should be recognised as one of the defining features of life in the England of Henry VIII. Henry fought many wars throughout his reign, and this book explores how this came to dominate English culture and shape attitudes to the king and to national history, with people talking and reading about war, and spending money on weaponry and defence.
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An accidental history of Tudor England : from daily life to sudden death
A new history of the Tudor world, told by uncovering ordinary people's grizzly fatal accidents. There is untold history of Tudor England - the history of the several million subjects of their famous kings and queens. What did ordinary people do all day, in their homes, their work, their leisure and travel? This title explores the history of everyday life, and everyday death. Here we learn that fatal accidents were much more likely to take place during the agricultural peak season, with cart crashes, dangerous harvesting techniques, horse tramplings and windmill manglings all as major causes.
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For whom the bell tolls: accidental deaths in Tudor England
[...]Dorothy Cawthorn's death can tell us something of her contemporaries' experience and understanding of death and disease. Journeys beside or across rivers, streams, and ponds posed the risk of drowning, thanks to faulty bridges, unpredictable fords, and slippery banks.
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Archery Practice in Early Tudor England
Concern to maintain archery went right to the top of English society and dated back to at least 1363, when the first of a succession of ordinances and parliamentary statutes had commanded that Englishmen should spend their Sundays and holidays not in pointless amusements such as football, bowls, tennis and dice, but in shooting at the butts. By the mid 15th century it was accepted by political writers such as Sir John Fortescue and George Ashby that national security depended upon the populace being \"much exercised in shooting\", something to which \"By law every man should be compeled\". Henry VII and Henry VIII defended the longbow with statutes banning the possession of crossbows and handguns by the lower orders; they promoted it with further statutes ordering every householder to keep bows, not only for himself, but for his servants and children, and commanding every adult and adolescent male to use them. Here, Gunn explores archery practice in in early Tudor England.
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