North-East England, 1569-1625: Governance, Culture and IdentityBoydell Press, 2006 - 214 Seiten This study of England's north-eastern parts examines counties Durham and Northumberland as well as Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with its central theme the extent to which the county gentry and urban elites possessed a sense of regional identity. It concentrates on these elites' social, political, religious and cultural connections which extended beyond the purely administrative jurisdictions of the county or town. By concentrating on a series of seismic changes inthe area - the demise of its great regional magnates, the rapid upsurge of the coal industry and the union of the crowns - it offers a distinctive chronological coverage, from the latter half of the sixteenth century through to the early seventeenth century. Old stereotypes of the north-eastern landed elites as isolated and backward are overturned while their response to state formation reveals their political sophistication. Traditional views of the religious conservatism of the north-eastern parts are reassessed to demonstrate its multi-faceted complexion. And contrasting cultural patterns are analysed, through ballad literature, the cult of St Cuthbert and increasing exposure to metropolitan "civility", to reveal a series of sub-regions within the north-eastern reaches of the kingdom. Dr DIANA NEWTON is Lecturer in History at the University of Teesside. |
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Elites of and in northeastern England | 22 |
The governance and governors of northeastern England | 44 |
Northeast elites and the crisis of border government | 66 |
Civil society in northeastern England | 94 |
Religious identities | 117 |
Cultural identities | 143 |
regional identity and the elites of northeastern | 163 |
Elites of and in the northeastern counties of England | 175 |
Bibliography | 181 |
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administrative Arminianism assize ballads Berwick bishop of Durham border to middle British Burghley Cambridge Camden Castle Catholic Chapter church civil coal commission county Durham county gentry crown cultural Cumberland Delaval deputy diocese of Durham distinctive Durham and Northumberland earl early modern England elites Elizabeth Elizabethan English especially Fenwick Forster Gateshead gentlemen grand lessees Huntingdon James justices King kingdom land late sixteenth later London Lord Marcombe marriage medieval members of parliament middle march middle shire Morpeth Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle's North East north-eastern counties north-eastern reaches Northumberland and Durham Northumberland gentry Northumbria NRO Gosforth Oxford palatinate peace political privy council Puritan quarter sessions realm records recusancy regional identity religious Robert Roger Widdrington Salisbury Scotland Scottish September 2004 colloquium sheriff Sir John Sir Ralph Sir William sixteenth century social St Cuthbert Surtees Society Thomas town Tudor urban warden Westmorland Widdrington Yorkshire