Review Essay: “Civic Culture” in Later Medieval and Early Modern London

See my “Discourses of History in Early Modern London,” in Huntington Library Quarterly 68 (2005).

Ben Jonson , The Case is Altered, I. ii., 26-7.

T. Nashe , “An Epistle to the Gentlemen Students of the Two Universities,” prefixed to Robert Greene, Menaphon Camillas Alarum to Slumbering Euphues, in His Melancholie Cell at Silexedra (London, 1589).

Francis Meres , Palladis Tamia Wits Treasury Being the Second Part of Wits Common Wealth (London, 1598), 8.

A. Davis , Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance (Cambridge , 2003).

P. Collinson , The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559-1625 (Oxford, 1982), 203-5.

S. McMillin and S.-B. Maclean , The Queen's Men and their Plays (Cambridge, 1998).

S. Mullaney , The Place of the Stage: Licence, Play and Power in Renaissance England (Chicago, 1988).

Paul Griffiths' work on Bridewell and early modern criminality is in progress. For a foretaste, see his “Overlapping Circles: Imagining Criminal Communities in London, 1545-1645,” in Communities in Early Modern England: Networks, Place, and Rhetoric, edited by A. Shepard and P. Withington , (Manchester, 2000).

B. Capp , The World of John Taylor, the Water Poet, 1578-1653 (Oxford , 1994).

For a recent example of this approach, see A. Lumbers , “Discourses of Whoredom in Seventeenth Century England” (University of Oxford, D.Phil. thesis, 2005).