Everyday Life in the Early Modern Era (Post-Reformation)

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Whole of History
Special Topics
Multi-National & Europe
Germany
England
Scotland
Ireland
Netherlands
France
Spain
Italy
Israel
Russia
Asia
Islam
Japan
New Zealand
America
Africa

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Whole of History

Everyday Life through the Whole of History


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Special Topics

Food

Albala, Ken – Food in Early Modern Europe  in Food through History  (Greenwood Press, 2003)  270 pp.  ToC

Camporesi, Piero – Bread of Dreams: Food & Fantasy in Early Modern Europe  (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1989)  215 pp.  ToC

Front flap: “Camporesi develops the startling claim that many people in early modern Europe lived in a state of almost permanent hallucination, drugged by their hunger or by bread adulterated with hallucinogenic herbs.  The use of opiate products, administered even to infants and children, was widespread and was linked to a popular mythology in which herbalists and exorcists were important cultural figures.”

Gentilcore, David – Food & Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet, Medicine & Society, 1450-1800  (Bloomsbury, 2016)  260 pp.

Campbell, J. – At the First Table: Food & Social Identity in Early Modern Spain  (Lincoln, NE: 2017)  230 pp.

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Shoes & Boots

Hall, J. Sparkes – The Book of the Feet: a History of Boots & Shoes: with illustrations of the fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks & Romans, and the prevailing style throughout Europe, during the Middle Ages down to the present period…  (William H. Graham, 1847)  220 pp.  ToC

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Medicine

Gentilcore, David – Food & Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet, Medicine & Society, 1450-1800  (Bloomsbury, 2016)  260 pp.


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Multi-National & Europe

1500 to 1800

Short & Friendly

Grant, Neil – The Early Modern World  in Children’s History of the World  (Oxford Univ. Press, 2001)  45 pp.  ToC

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Popular Culture

Burke, Peter – Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe  3rd ed.  (Ashgate, 2009)  385 pp.  ToC

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Economics

Kellenbenz, Hermann – The Rise of the European Economy: an Economic History of Continental Europe from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century  (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976)  360 pp.  ToC

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Families

Plakans, Andrejs – Kinship in the Past: an Anthropology of European Family Life, 1500-1900  (Blackwell, 1984)  280 pp.  ToC

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At Sea

Volo, Dorothy & James – Daily Life in the Age of Sail [1500-1850]  (Greenwood Press)

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1517-1700

Books

Anderson, James – Daily Life during the Reformation  (Bloomsbury, 2010)  280 pp.  ToC

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Reformed Churches

Benedict, Philip – Christ’s Churches Purely Reformed: a Social History of Calvinism  (Yale Univ. Press, 2002)  690 pp.  ToC

Murdock, Graeme – Beyond Calvin: the Intellectual, Political & Cultural World of Europe’s Reformed Churches, c. 1540-1620  Pre  (Bloomsbury, 2017)  191 pp.  ToC

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Economics

ed. Rich, E.E. – The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, vol. 4 (Economy of Expanding Europe in 16th & 17th Centuries), 5 (Economic Organization of Early Modern Europe)  (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1977)  ToC 4, 5

Carter, Alice C. – Getting, Spending & Investing in Early Modern Times: Essays on Dutch, English & Huguenot Economic History  (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1975)  180 pp.  ToC

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Cities

eds. Aerts, Erik & Peter Clark – Metropolitan Cities & their Hinterlands in Early Modern Europe  (Leuven Univ. Press, 1990)  105 pp.  ToC

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Cooking

Albala, Ken – Cooking in Europe, 1250-1650  (Greenwood)

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Soldiers

Showalter & Astore – The Early Modern World  in Soldiers’ Lives through History  (Greenwood, 2007)  230 pp.

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1517 to 1600

Social History

ed. Buck, Lawrence & Jonathan Zophy – The Social History of the Reformation  (Ohio State Univ. Press, 1972)  425 pp.  ToC

eds. Sessions & Bebb – Pietas et societas: New Trends in Reformation Social History: Essays in Memory of Harold J. Grimm  (Edwards Brothers, 1984)  240 pp.  ToC

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1600 to Present

Rosenzwieg, Linda & Peter Stearns – Themes in Modern Social History [1600-1984]  (Carnegie-Mellon University, 1985)  250 pp.  ToC

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Families

Ozment, Steven – When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe  (Harvard Univ. Press, 1983)  250 pp.

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Travel

Kleinschmidt, Harald – People on the Move: Attitudes toward & Perceptions of Migration in Medieval & Modern Europe  (Praeger, 2003)  300 pp.  ToC

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Jews

ed. Lieberman, Julia – Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora  (Brandeis University Press, 2011)  295 pp.  ToC

eds. Ehrlich, Carl & Sara Horowitz – Jewish Studies on Premodern Periods  Pre  (De Gruyter, 2023)  335 pp.  ToC

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On Books

Putnam, George H. – Books & their Makers during the Middle Ages; a Study of the Conditions of the Production & Distribution of Literature from the fall of the Roman Empire to the close of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 1 (476-1600), 2 (1500-1709)  (Putnam, 1896)  490 pp.  ToC 1, 2

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Early Modern Germany

Books

Imhof, Arthur – Lost Worlds: How our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life & Why Life is so Hard Today  tr. Thomas Robisheaux  (University Press of Virginia, 1996)  220 pp.

This is most pertinently about Germany from 1670-1755.

Ozment, Steven – Flesh & Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany  (Penguin, 1999)  360 pp.  ToC

Mayes, David – Communal Christianity: the Life & Loss of a Peasant Vision in Early Modern Germany  (Brill, 2004)  385 pp.  ToC

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Social History

Sagarra, Eda – A Social History of Germany 1648-1914  (Holmes & Meirer, 1977)  470 pp.  ToC

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Family Life

Nivre, Elisabeth W. – Women & Family Life in Early Modern German Literature  (Camden House, 2004)  240 pp.

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Rural

Dixon, C. Scott – The Reformation & Rural Society: the Parishes of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, 152-1603  in Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History  (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002)  235 pp.

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Early Modern England

Books

Hall, H.R. Wilton – Social Life in England through the Centuries  (Blackie & Son, 1927)  250 pp.  ToC

Kyto, Grund & Walker – Testifying to Language & Life in Early Modern England [1560-1760]…  (John Benjamins Publishing, 2011)  380 pp.  ToC

Synge, M.B. – A Short History of Social Life in England  (Hodder & Stoughton, 1922)  445 pp.  ToC

Derry, T.K. & M.G. Blakeway – The Making of Pre-Industrial Britain: Life & Work between the Renaissance & the Inudstrial Revolution  (London: John Murray)  385 pp.  ToC

Powell, Chilton – English Domestic Relations: 1487-1653: a Study of Matrimony & Family Life in Theory & Practice as Revealed by the Literature, Law & History of the Period  (Columbia Univ. Press, 1917)  285 pp.  ToC

Webb, Maria – The Fells of Swarthmoor Hall & their Friends; with an Account of their Ancestor, Anne Askew, the Martyr; a Portraiture of Religious & Family Life in the Seventeenth Century, compiled Chiefly from Original Letters & other Documents Never before Published  2nd ed.  (Philadelphia: Henry Longstreth, 1884)  475 pp.  ToC

The covers primarily Northwest England and is strongly tied to the founding of the Quaker movement.  Swarthmoor Hall used by George Fox as a primary meeting point during the 1600’s.

Creighton, Louise – Social History of England  (London: Rivingtons, 1887)  150 pp.  ToC

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Social History

Books

Mainwaring, James – British Social History, vol. 2 (1600 to 1965)  (Odhams Press, 1965)  370 pp.  ToC

Hibbert, Christopher – The English: a Social History 1066-1945  (Guild, 1987)  845 pp.  ToC

Briggs, Asa – A Social History of England  (Penguin, 1985)  310 pp.  ToC

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Anthology of Primary Sources

Morgan, R.B. – Readings in English Social History from Pre-Roman Days to A.D. 1887  in 1 vol.  (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1923)  685 pp.  ToC

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Popular Culture

Article

Goring, Jeremy – “Godly Exercises or the Devil’s Dance?: Puritanism & Popular Culture in Pre-Civil War [1642] England”  (Dr. William’s Trust, 1983)  25 pp.  no ToC

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Books

Reay, Barry – Popular Culture in Seventeenth-Century England  (Croom Helm, 1985)  330 pp.  ToC

ed. Harris, Tim – Popular Culture in England, c. 1500-1850  (Macmillan, 1995)  300 pp.  ToC

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Pictures

Harrison & Bryant – Picture Source Book for Social History: Sixteenth Century  (Allen & Unwin, 1951)  105 pp.  ToC

Harrison & Wells – Picture Source Book for Social History: Seventeenth Century  (Allen & Unwin)

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Tudors

Short & Friendly

Gogerly, Liz – Everyday Life: Focus on Tudor Life  (Watts, 2006)  35 pp.  ToC

Butterfield, Moira – Everyday Life: Discover the Tudors  (Watts, 2013)  33 pp.  ToC

Middleton, Haydn – Everyday Life in Tudor Times  (MacDonald Young Books, 1995)  58 pp.  ToC

Wilson, Laura – Daily Life in a Tudor House  (Oxford: Heinemann Library, 1996)  48 pp.  ToC

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Books

Mountfield, David – Everyday Life in Elizabethan England  (1978)

Singman, Jeffery – Daily Life in Elizabethan England  (Greenwood Press, 1995)  240 pp.  ToC

Picard, Liza – Elizabeth’s London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London  (Phoenix: 2004)  440 pp.  ToC

Porter, Stephen – Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne Boleyn  (2016)  285 pp.

Forgeng, Jeffrey – Daily Life in Elizabethan England  2nd ed.  (Greenwood Press)  300 pp.  ToC

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Criminals

Childs, Alan – The Daily Life of a Tudor Criminal  (Wayland, 2008)  30 pp.  ToC

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Shakespeare

Friendly

Elgin, Kathy – Shakespeare’s World: Daily Life  (Cherrytree Books, 2008)  30 pp.  ToC

Marcovitz, Hal – Life in the Time of Shakespeare  in Living History  (Reference Point Press, 2015)  95 pp.  ToC

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Books

Porter, Stephen – Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne Boleyn  (2016)  285 pp.

ed. Wagner, John – Voices of Shakespeare’s England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life  (Greenwood, 2010)  305 pp.

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Families

Young, Bruce – Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare  (Greenwood Press, 2009)  275 pp.

Jones, Jeanne – Family Life in Shakespeare’s England: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1570-1630  (Sutton, 1996)  180 pp.  ToC

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Monastics

ed. Collett, Barry – Female Monastic Life in Early Tudor England: with an Edition of Richard Fox’s Translation of the Benedictine Rule for Women, 1517  (Ashgate, 2016)  185 pp.

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King James I

College

D’Ewes, Symonds – College Life in the Time of James I as Illustrated by an Unpublished Diary of Sir Symonds D’Ewes, Baronet & M.P., for some time a Fellow-Commoner of St. John’s College, Cambridge  (London: Parker, 1851)  140 pp.  ToC

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1600’s

Books

Auslander, Leora – Cultural Revolutions: Everyday Life & Politics in Britain, North America & France  (Univ. of California Press, 2009)  245 pp.  ToC

This treats of the puritan revolution and civil war in England (1642-1651), the Revolutionary War in America (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-1799).

Forgeng, Jeffrey – Daily Life in Stuart England  (Greenwood Press, 2007)  270 pp.  ToC

Coate, Mary – Social Life in Stuart England  (1924; Greenwood Press, 1971)  220 pp.  ToC

Slater, Miriam – Family Life in the Seventeenth Century: the Verneys of Claydon House  (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984)  220 pp.  ToC

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Church

Hunt, Arnold – The Art of Hearing: English Preachers & their Audiences, 1590–1640  (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010)

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City of London

Whole or Most of History

Toht, Betony & David – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern London  (Runestone Press, 2000)  65 pp.  ToC

Richardson, John – London & its People: a Social History from Medieval Times to the Present Day  (Barrie & Jenkins, 1995)  360 pp.  ToC

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1660 to 1750

Picard, Liza – Restoration London: Everyday Life in London, 1660-1670  (London: Folio Society, 2012)  360 pp.  ToC

Schwartz, Richard B. – Daily Life in Johnson’s London [1738]  (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1983)  215 pp.  ToC

Earle, Peter – The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society & Family Life in London, 1660-1730  (Methuen, 1989)  460 pp.  ToC

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1850 to 1900

Book

Stewart, Charles – Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal & Social Life in Edinburgh & London 1850-1900  (Blackwood & Sons, 1901)  205 pp.  ToC

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The Poor

Rowe, Richard – Life in the London Streets, or Struggles for Daily Bread  (London: J.C. Nimmo & Bain, 1881)  415 pp.  ToC

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Social History

Porter, Roy – London: a Social History  (Harvard Univ. Press, 1995)  440 pp.  ToC

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Civil War

Young, Brigadier & Wilfrid Emberton – The Cavalier Army: its Organization & Everyday Life  (London: George Allen, 1974)  200 pp.

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Pepys Diaries

ed. Smith, J. – Diary of Samuel Pepys, vol. 1 (1659-1665), 2 (1666-1669)  (London: Dent & Sons, 1925)

ed. Latham, Robert – The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diary  (London: Book Club Associates, 1979)  350 pp.

eds. Lathan, Robert & William Matthews – The Diary of Samuel Pepys: a New & Complete Transcription, vol. 1, 2 (1661), 3, 4, 5 (1664), 6, 7 (1666), 8, 9  (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1970)

The Journal of Emily Pepys  (Prospect Books, 1984)

ed. Spender, Dale – The Diary of Elizabeth Pepys  (Grafton, 1991)  265 pp.  ToC

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1650 to 1850

Berry, Mary – A Comparative View of Social Life in England & France, from the Restoration of Charles the Second [1660] to the Present Time, vol. 1 (1660-1789), 2 (1789-1844)  new ed.  (London: Bentley, 1844)  ToC 1, 2

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1650 to 1700

Restoration Period, 1660-1688

Sydney, William C. – Social Life in England from the Restoration to the Revolution, 1660-1690  (London: Ward & Downey, 1892)  465 pp.  no ToC

Earle, Peter – The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society & Family Life in London, 1660-1730  (Methuen, 1989)  460 pp.  ToC

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Puritans

Cosby, Brian H. – Flavel: Puritan Life & Thought in Stuart England  (Lexington Books, 2014)  170 pp.

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1700’s

Books

George, M.D. – English Social Life in the Eighteenth Century, part 1  (London: Sheldon Press, 1923)  120 pp.  ToC

Olsen, Kirstin – Daily Life in 18th Century England  (Greenwood Press, 1999)  415 pp.  ToC

Parreaux, Andre – Daily Life in England in the Reign of George II [1738–1820]

Earle, Peter – The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society & Family Life in London, 1660-1730  (Methuen, 1989)  460 pp.  ToC

Hill, C.P. – British Economic & Social History 1700-1939  (London: Edward Arnold, 1964)  435 pp.  ToC

Russell, Rex C. – From Cock-Fighting to Chapel Building: Changes in Popular Culture in Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century Lincolnshire: Documents & Commentaries  (Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire, 2002)  120 pp.  ToC

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Popular Culture

Rogers, Pat – Literature & Popular Culture in Eighteenth Century England  (Harvester Press, 1985)  225 pp.  ToC

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1700 to 1750

Ashton, John – Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne taken from Original Sources [1702-1714]  (London: chatto & Windus, 1925)  495 pp.  ToC

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1750 to 1800

Court & Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte: being the Journals of Mrs. Papendiek, Assitant Keeper of the Wardrobe & Reader to her Majesty [1765-1792], vol. 12  ed. Vernon D. Broughton  (London: Bentley, 1887)  335 pp.  ToC 1, 2

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Quakers

Social History

Lloyd, Arnold – Quaker Social History: 1669-1738  (Longmans, Green & Co., 1950)  240 pp.  ToC

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Women

Hill, Georgiana – Women in English Life from Mediaeval to Modern Times, vol. 1 (Medieval, Renaissance, 1700’s), 2 (1700’s-1800’s)  (London: Bentley & Son, 1896)  370 pp.  ToC 1, 2

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Sex

Whole of History

Bloch, Ivan – Sexual Life in England Past & Present  tr. William H. Forstern  (London: ARCO Publications, 1958)  675 pp.  ToC

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Villages

Howells, Jane – Life in an English Village: an Economic & Historical Survey of the Parish of Corsley in Wiltshire [1660-1906]  (Hobnob Press,  2013)  320 pp.  ToC

Harris, Mary – Life In An Old English Town [Middle Ages to 1898]  (Sonnenschein, 1898)  385 pp.  ToC

Underdown, David – Fire from Heaven: the Life of an English Town in the Seventeenth Century  (Harper Collins, 1992)  315 pp.  ToC

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Sports

Brailsford, Dennis – British Sport: a Social History  (Lutterworth Press, 1992)  155 pp.  ToC

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Soldiers

1485 to Present

De Watteville, Herman G. – The British Soldier: his Daily Life from Tudor to Modern Times  (Putnam’s Sons, 1955)  285 pp.  ToC

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Smoking

Apperson, George L. – The Social History of Smoking [in Britain, 1560-1914]  (London: Martin Secker, 1914)  260 pp.  ToC

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Early Modern Scotland

Whole History

Rogers, Charles – Social Life in Scotland from Early to Recent Times, vol. 1, 2, 3  (Edinburgh: Paterson, 1884)  420 pp.  ToC 1, 2, 3

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1500’s to mid-1800’s

Macpherson, Alexander – Glimpses of Church & Social Life in the Highlands in Olden Times: and other Papers  (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1893)  580 pp.  ToC

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1500’s to Early-1700’s

Books

Dunbar, E.D. – Social Life in Former Days, chiefly in the Province of Moray, Illustrated by Letters & Family Papers, vol. 1, 2  (Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1866)  215 pp.  ToC 1, 2

Innes, C. – Sketches of Early Scotch History & Social Progress: Church Organization, the University, Home Life  (Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglass, 1861)  660 pp.  ToC

Todd, Margo – The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland (Yale University Press, 2002)  475 pp.

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Medical Life

M’Lean, Hugh A. – Some Aspects of Medical Life in Old Glasgow  (Glasgow: Alex. MacDougall, 1912)  24pp.  no ToC

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1600’s

Leyburn, James Graham – The Scotch-Irish: a Social History  (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1962)  390 pp.

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Theater

Peter, Bruce – Scotlandʼs Splendid Theatres: Architecture & Social History from the Reformation to the Present Day  (Polygon, 1999)  255 pp.  ToC


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Early Modern Ireland

1500’s

Article

Hore, Herbert Francis – “Life in Old Ireland [Medieval up to 1500’s]”  in Ulster Journal of Archaeology, vol. 7  (1859), pp. 267-77

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1600’s to 1700’s

Leyburn, James Graham – The Scotch-Irish: a Social History  (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1962)  390 pp.

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City of Dublin

Article

Murchadha, Maighread Ni – “Dublin after Dark: Glimpses of Life in an Early Modern City: The Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture, 2013”  (Dublin City Public Libraries, 2014)  24 pp.

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Book

Collins, James – Life in Old Dublin [1500-1900], Historical Associations of Cook Street, Three Centuries of Dublin Printing, Reminiscences of a Great Tribune  (Dublin: Duffy, 1913)  215 pp.  ToC

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Early Modern Netherlands

Book

Gutmann, Myron – War & Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries  (Princeton Univ. Press, 1980)  325 pp.

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History

Davies, C.M.- The History of Holland & the Dutch Nation from the beginning of the tenth century to the end of the eighteenth: including an account of the municipal institutions, commercial pursuits and social habits of the people; the rise and progress of the Protestant reformation in Holland; the intestine dissensions, foreign wars, etc., vol. 1 (913-1572), 2 (1573-1660), 3 (1660-1794)  (London: Willis, Grat Plaza, Covent Garden, 1851)  ToC 1, 2, 3

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1600’s

Art

Brown, Christopher – Scenes of Everyday Life: Dutch Genre Painting of the Seventeenth Century  (Faber & Faber, 1984)  235 pp.  ToC

Stone-Ferrier, Linda – Dutch Prints of Daily Life: Mirrors of Life or Masks of Morals?  (Spencer Museum of Art, 1983)  245 pp.  ToC

ed. Barnes, Donna – Street Scenes: Leonard Bramer’s Drawings of 17th-Century Dutch Daily Life  (Hofstra Museum, 1991)  80 pp.  no ToC

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Early Modern France

Books

Berry, Mary – A Comparative View of Social Life in England & France, from the Restoration of Charles the Second [1660] to the Present Time, vol. 1 (1660-1789), 2 (1789-1844)  new ed.  (London: Bentley, 1844)  ToC 1, 2

Fedden, Katharine – Manor Life in Old France from the Jounral of the Sire de Gouberville for the Years 1549-1562  (Columbia Univ. Press, 1933)  120 pp.  ToC

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Family Life

Gager, Kristin Elizabeth – Blood Ties & Fictive Ties: Adoption & Family Life in Early Modern France  (Princeton Univ. Press, 1996)  210 pp.

Hunt, David – Parents & Children in History: the Psychology of Family Life in Early Modern France  (Haper Torch Books, 1972)  203 pp.

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City of Paris

Short & Friendly

Hoban, Sarah – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Paris  (Runestone Press, 2001)  65 pp.  ToC

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Books

Pardailhe-Galabrun, Annik – The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy & Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris  (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1991)  260 pp.  ToC

eds. McClain, Merriman & Kaoru – Edo [Tokyo] & Paris: Urban Life & the State in the Early Modern Era  (Cornell Univ. Press, 1994)  500 pp.  ToC

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1700’s

Roche, Daniel – The People of Paris: an Essay in Popular Culture in the 18th Century  (Univ. of California Press, 1987)  280 pp.  ToC

Brennan, Thomas – Public Drinking & Popular Culture in Eighteenth Century Paris  (Princeton Univ. Press, 1988)  340 pp.

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City of Versailles

Book

Levron, Jacques – Daily Life at Versailles in the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries  (Macmillan Co., 1968)  250 pp.  ToC

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Theater

1600’s

Mongredien, Georges – Daily Life in the French Theatre at the Time of Moliere [1598-1673]  tr. Claire Engel  (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1969)  225 pp.  ToC

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Early Modern Spain

Golden Age: 1492-1659

Books

Defourneaux, Marcelin – Daily Life in Spain in the Golden Age  tr. Newton Branch  (Praeger Publishers, 1971)  265 pp.

Vasseberg, David – The Village & the Outside World in Golden Age Castile: Mobility & Migration in Everyday Rural Life  (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996)  265 pp.

Blurb: “This book, based upon a vast range of documentary and secondary sources, shatters the disproven but persistent myth of the closed immobile village in the early modern period.  It demonstrates that even in traditionalist Castile, pre-industrial village society was highly dynamic, with continuous inter-village, inter-regional, and rural-urban migration…

The approach is interdisciplinary, and pays special attention to how rural families dealt with economic and social problems.  The rural Castile that emerges is a complex society that defies easy generalizations, but one which is unquestionably part of the general European reality.”

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1500’s

On the Sea

Perez-Mallaina, Pablo – Spain’s Men of the Sea: Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century  (John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998)  305 pp.  ToC

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Spanish Inquisition

Friendly

Woog, Adam – Life during the Spanish Inquisition  in Living History  (Reference Point Press, 2015)  90 pp.  ToC

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Book

Anderson, James – Daily Life during the Spanish Inquisition  (Greenwood Press, 2002)  305 pp.

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Food

Campbell, J. – At the First Table: Food & Social Identity in Early Modern Spain  (Lincoln, NE: 2017)  230 pp.

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Early Modern Italy

Book

Cognasso, Francesco – Life & Culture in Piedmont, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day  (Turin: RIV-SKF, Officine di Villar Perosa, S.P.A., 1970)  460 pp.  no ToC

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Women

eds. Scaraffia & Zarri – Women & Faith: Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present  (Harvard Univ. Press, 1999)  420 pp.  ToC

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City of Rome

Whole History

Barghusen, Joan – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Rome  (Runestone Press, 1999)  60 pp.

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1700’s

Andrieux, Maurice – Daily Life in Papal Rome in the Eighteenth Century  (Macmillan, 1968)  235 pp.  ToC

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Contemporary

A Pope

Children’s Book

Perego & Casagrande – Max & Benedict [XVI]: a Bird’s Eye View of the Pope’s Daily Life [2005-2009]  (Ignatius Press, 2009)  50 pp.  no ToC

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City of Florence

Lucas-Dubreton, J. – Daily Life in Florence [Italy] in the Time of the Medici [1230-1737]  (Macmillan, 1961)  330 pp.


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Israel

City of Jerusaelm

Short & Friendly

Slavik, Diane – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Jerusalem  in Cities through Time  (Runestone Press, 2001)  62 pp.  ToC

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Book

Rossoff, Dovid – Where Heaven touches Earth: Jewish Life in Jerusalem from Medieval Times to the Present  rev. ed.  (Jerusalem: Guardian Press, 1998)  660 pp.


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Russia

Families

Elnett, Elaine – Historic Origin & Social Development of Family Life in Russia [c. 860 – 1921]  (Columbia Univ. Press, 1926)  160 pp.  ToC

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Social History

Mirsky, D.S. – Russia: a Social History  (London: Cresset Press, 1931)  350 pp.  ToC

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Early Modern Asia

Central Asia

1500 to 1800

Yoqubovna, Zoirova – “Cultural Life in the Emirates and Khanates of Kokan, Khiva, Bukhara in the 16th-18th Centuries”  in Central Asian Journal of Literature, Philosophy & Culture, vol. 4, issue 2  (2023)  2 pp.

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1500 to 1600

Khasanovich, Kandakharov – “Socio Political & Cultural Life in the Bukjara Khanate”  in Impact: International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts & Literature, vol. 8, issue 6  (2020), pp. 17-19

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East Asia

China

Social History

Sun, E-Tu Zen & John de Frances – Chinese Social History: Translations of Selected Studies [c. 1523 – 1911]  (NY: Octagon, 1966)  425 pp.  ToC

eds. Johnson, Nathan & Rawski – Popular Culture in Late Imperial China [1368-1912]  (Univ. of California Press, 1985)

ed. Ebrey & Watson – Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940  (Univ. of California Press, 1986)

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Popular Culture

eds. Johnson, Nathan & Rawski – Popular Culture in Late Imperial China  (Univ. of California Press, 1985)  445 pp.

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Economics

eds. Rawski & Li – Chinese History [1638-1949] in Economic Perspective  (Univ. of California Press, 1991)

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Death Rituals

eds. Watson & Rawski – Death Ritual in Late Imperial & Modern China  (Univ. of California Press, 1988)


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The Muslim World

Education

Hussain, Amjad – A Social History of Education in the Muslim World: from the Prophetic Era to Ottoman Times [AD 610-1924]  (Ta-Ha Publishers, 2013)  270 pp.  ToC

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Early Modern Japan

Book

Deal, William – Handbook to Life in Medieval & Early Modern Japan  (Facts on File, 2006)  430 pp.  ToC

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1700’s

Popular Culture

Walthall, Anne – Social Protest & Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Japan  (Association for Asian Studies, Univ. of Arizona Press, 1986)  280 pp.  ToC

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City of Tokyo

eds. McClain, Merriman & Kaoru – Edo [Tokyo] & Paris: Urban Life & the State in the Early Modern Era  (Cornell Univ. Press, 1994)  500 pp.  ToC


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Early Modern New Zealand

Book

Best, Elsdon – The Maori as he was: a Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days [AD 1200-1700]  (1924; R.E. Owen, 1952)  310 pp.  ToC

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America

Everyday Life in America


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Africa

Social

ed. Beinart & McGregor – Social History & African Environments  (Ohio Univ. Press, 2003)  280 pp.  ToC

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Slaves

Kleinman & Kurtis-Kleinman – Life on an African Slave Ship  in The Way People Live  (Lucent Books, 2001)  105 pp.  ToC

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