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Internet Modern History Sourcebook

Everyday Life in Premodern Europe

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Contents

• Structures of Life in the West
  • Population
  • Climate
  • Geography
  • Food and Famine
  • Housing
  • Clothes and Fashion
  • Technology
  • Money
  • Towns and Cities
• Everyday Life
  • Country Living
  • Urban Live
  • Trades
  • Criminal Justice
  • Social Welfare
  • Health and Disease
  • Women, Men and Children
  • Witchcraft
• From Popular to Mass Culture
  • The Reformation of Manners
  • The Novel

Structures of Life in the West

• Wikipedia:longue durée 
• Population
  • Wikipedia:Demographics of Europe
  • Wikipedia:Demographic Trasnition
  • Wikipedia:Western European marriage pattern
  • Wikipedia:Hajnal Line
  • John Hajnal:."European marriage pattern in historical perspective". In Glass, D.V.; Eversley, D.E.C. (eds.).Population in History. London: Arnold, 1965. PDF [At Berkeley] [Internet Archive versionhere]
• Climate
  • Wikipedia:Little Ice Age
  • Wikipedia:River Thames Frost Fairs
  • An account of the Frost Fair of 1608, the first frost fair that was called a frost fair [Image]
  • William Andrews:Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time (1887) [Project Gutenberg]
    With many excerpts from contemporary descriptions.
• Geography
• Food and Famine
  • Wikipedia:Early Modern European Cuisine
  • Gervase Markham (1568?-1637):Country contentments, or The English huswife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgerie, (1623) [Internet Archive]
• Housing
• Clothes and Fashion
  • Fashion History Timeline [At FIT NYC] [Internet Archive versionhere]
• Technology
  • The Rise of Coal in Britain 1603-1712 [At Rise of Coal] [Internet Archive versionhere]
• Money
  • Sir Isaac Newton:Mint Reports (1701-1725) [At Editions Marteau] [Internet Archive versionhere]
• Towns and Cities
  • Map of Early Modern London [At UVic Ca] [Internet Archive versionhere]
  • Africans in Early Modern London [At City of London] [Internet Archive versionhere]
  • Tour of Paris in the Early Modern Era (1500-1789) [nternet Archive versionhere]

Everyday Life

• Country Living
  • Survey of Brydithfield in the Manor of Brandon, Suffolk  [in Latin][Was At Kansans, now Internet Archive]
    Transcription of a portion of Kenneth Spencer Research Library MS E112, a sixteenth-century survey of the ten fields in the manor.
  • Parish of Rowner in 1642 - Texts and sources for a Southern English parish in 1642. [Now Internet Archive]
  • Social Conditions in 17th Century France, c. 1650 [At this Site]
  • Martin Guerre
  • German Historical Documents: Rural and Urban Economy and Labor [At GHDI] [Internet Archive versionhere]
• Urban Life
  • London Lives 1690-1800: Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis [Internet Archive versionhere]
  • The London Gazzette - The Great Fire of London, Sept 3 to Sept 10, 1666 [Was At DavidCo, now Internet Archive]
    Facsimile of original newspaper report.
  Trades
  • Daniel Defoe (c. 1659-1731):The Complete English Tradesman, 1724 [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]
  • The Life of Thomas Gent, Printer of York, 1693-1778 [Was At eclipse.co.uk, now Internet Archive]
• Criminal Justice
  • Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern England - A site with texts and photos about execution in Early Modern England. [Now Internet Archive]
  • Tyburn Tree - A site with texts and photos about execution in Early Modern England.[At London Remembers] [Internet Archive versionhere]
  • Alfred Marks:Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals [Project Guetnberg]
• Social Welfare
  • William Marshall:Draft of a Poor Law, 1536 [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
• Health and Disease
  • A General Study of the Plague in England 1539-1640 With a Specific Reference to Loughborough [Was At Loughborough, now Internet Archive]
  • The Newes: Instructions on How to Deal With the Plague of 1665 [Was At DavidCo, now Internet Archive]
    Facsimile of original newspaper report.
• Women, Men and Children
  • German Historical Documents: Family and Gender [At GHDI] [Internet Archive versionhere]
  • Homosexuality in Eighteenth Century England: A Sourcebook [Internet Archive versionhere]
  • Glueckel of Hameln 1645–1724 [Internet Archive versionhere]
  • Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln (1646-1724), excerpts. [Internet Archive versionhere]
• Witchcraft
  • The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft 1563-1736 [At Edinburgh] [Internet Archive versionhere]
    An electronic resource for the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in Scotland

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From Popular Culture to Mass Culture

• Wikipedia: Norbet Elias:The Civilising Process
• The Reformation of Manners
  • François Rabelais (1494-1593):Letter from Gargantua to his son Pantagruel [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
  • Francois Rabelais (1494-1593):Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel, [At Project Gutenberg]
  • Francois Rabelais (1494-1593):The Use of a Goose to Wipe Your Arse [Wikisource]
  • Francois Rabelais (1494-1593):The Use of a Goose to Wipe Your Arse [Was UNF, now Internet Archive]
  • Cardinal Richelieu invents the Table Knife May 13, 1637 [Was at Wired, now Internet Archive]
  • J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, The ingenious gentlewoman and servant-maids delightfull companion: Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex... To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentle-woman as to her behaviour & seemly deportment, &c. [At Michigan]
  • Brett and Kate McKay:How Manners Made the World [Ay Art of Maniliness] [Internet Archive versionhere]
  • The School of Manners - Rules for Children, 4th Ed 1701 [Internet Archive versionhere]
  • Reformation of Manners Campaigns [At London Lives] [Internet Archive versionhere]
  • Reformation Necessary to Prevent Our Ruin 1727 [At Rictor Norton] [Internet Archive versionhere]
  • Wikipedia:The Reformation of Manners
• The Novel
  • Miguel de Cervantes:Don Quixote,1605 [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
  • Miguel Cervantes:Don Quixote, trans. John Ormsby, full text [At Project Gutenberg]

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