Re: Tudor & Stuart Primary Sources for Class

Richard B Gorrie (rgorrie@uoguelph.ca)
Fri, 29 Sep 1995 08:43:57 -0400

Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 14:33:46 +1000
From: Simon Stevenson <S.Stevenson@hum.gu.edu.au>

On sources, there are old standbys like the three volumes by R. H. Tawney
and Eileen Power, _Tudor Economic Documents_, 1924, probably still out of
print (though there are other similar selections to that in the one volume
Bland, Brown & Tawney, _English Economic History: select documents_ 1914,
which was constantly reprinted and used to be available in paperback in the
1970s). See also Joan Thirsk and J. P. Cooper, _17th Century Economic
Documents_, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1972. The last of these might be
regarded as 'too economic' - i.e. not enough social and cultural material -
but it's still good value.

Short and jazzy book focused on the social:

Keith Wrightson, _English Society, 1580-1680_, Hutchinson, 1982