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Sir Keith Thomas is one of the most innovative and influential of English historians, and a scholar of unusual range. These essays, presented to him on his retirement as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, concentrate on one of the broad themes illuminated by his work - changing notions of civility in the past. From the sixteenth century onwards, civility was a term applied to modes of behaviour as well as to cultural and civic attributes. Its influence extended from styles of language and sexual mores to funeral ceremonies and commercial morality. It was used to distinguish the civil from the barbarous and the English from the Irish and Welsh, and to banish superstition and justify imperialism. The contributors - distinguished historians who have been Keith Thomas's pupils - illustrate the many implications of civility in the early modern period and its shifts of meaning down to the twentieth century.
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Peter Burke, Brian Harrison and Paul Slack have achieved the rare feat of persuading the contributors to address a particular theme: that of "civility". It is an appropriate theme, not only with regard to Thomas's scholarly interests, but also in relation to the man himself (Keith Wrightson, Times Literary Supplement)
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- PublisherOUP Oxford
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0198207107
- ISBN 13 9780198207108
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
- EditorBurke Peter, Harrison Brian A.
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