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Journal Article
Poverty, Labour and the Language of Social Description in Early Modern England
2008
Overview
Shepard examines the language of self-description adopted by men and women of limited means, of whom there were growing ranks in early modern English. Despite their expanding numbers, as well as intensified social commentary on the problems of poverty, the 'voices of the poor' themselves have remained largely muffled, audible only in relation to (and deeply shaped by) the highly strategic negotia- tions of formal poor relief. Of course the responses of witnesses to the question of their worth were not unmediated by the courts, but this enquiry was not as critical a moment of negotiation as petitions for relief because the outcome of these causes (the majority of which did not proceed to judgement) mostly did not have a direct bearing on the material well-being of respondents.
