It was interesting to see Sears McGee's detailed Tudor Stuart
bibliography. I am responding with additions only because its
length gives it an impression of completeness that is, I think,
misleading. It is good on political history, but somewhat patchy on
social history and local history. Here, from a different perspective,
are some of the more notable absences: there is only one book dealing with
women's history; popular culture is largely absent; and intellectual history
(apart from thatrelating to religion) entirely so... So here are a few
more things that I would put in a _thorough_ basic bibliography - drawn by
a fairly quick inspection of my bookshelves:
Susan Amussen, An Ordered Society, (1988, 1993)
J.M.Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (1986)
Robert Brenner, Merchants adn Revolution: Commercial Change, Political
Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653 (1993)
Alice Clark, Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century (1919, rep.
1992)
Patricia Crawford, Women and Religion in England, 1500-1720 (1993)
David Cressy, Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant
Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England, (1989)
Amy Louise Erickson, Women and Property in Early Modern England (1993)
Cynthia Herrup, The Common Peace: Participation and the Criminal Law in
Seventeenth Century England (1987)
Lisa Jardine, Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of
Shakespeare (2nd ed. 1989)
David Levine and Keith Wrightson, The Making of an Industrial Society:
Whickham, 1560-1765 (1991)
Margaret MacCurtain and Mary O'Dowd, eds., Women in Early Modern Ireland
(1991)
Phyllis Mack, Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century
England
Sara Heller Mendelson, The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies (1987)
Barry Reay, ed. Popular Culture in Seventeenth Century England (1985)
J.A. SHarpe, Crime in Seventeenth century England: A County Study (1983)
_________, Crime in Early Modern England: 1550-1750 (1984)
_________, Early Modern England: A Social History (1987)
Joan Thirsk, ed., The Agrarian History of England And Wales, vol IV,
1500-1640 (1967)
Betty Travitsky and Adele F. Seeff, eds. Attending to Women In Early
Modern England (1994)
Joy Wiltenburg, Disorderly Women and Female Power in the Street
Literature of Early Modern England and Germany (1992)
Of these, the Thirsk Agrarian History is a basic text for
agricultural history -which is central to economic history - and the
Mack is easily one of the best books of the last 10 years - much better and
more important than Martin Ingram's rather turgid work. I have left off the
fascinating, rich, and growing literature which sits at the intersection of
history and literature; and, since it isn't my expertise, the intellectual
history.
It would be interesting to know what others would add in those areas.
Susan Amussen