{"product_id":"language-and-social-relations-in-early-modern-england-9780198917663","title":"Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England","description":"What was the interrelation between language, power, and socio-economic inequality in England, c. 1550-1750? Early modern England was a hierarchical society that placed considerable emphasis on order; language was bound up with the various structures of authority that made up the polity. Members of the labouring population were expected to accept their place, defer to their superiors, and refrain from 'murmuring' about a host of issues. While some early modern labouring people fulfilled these expectations, others did not; because of their defiance, the latter were more likely to make their way into the historical record, and historians have previously used the evidence that they generated to reconstruct various forms of resistance and negotiation involved in everyday social relations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHillary Taylor instead considers the limits that class power placed on popular expression, and with what implications. Using a wide variety of sources, Taylor examines how members of the early modern English labouring population could be made to speak in ways that reflected and even seemed to justify their subordinated positions--both in their eyes and those of their social superiors. By reconstructing how class power structured and limited popular expression, this study not only presents a new interpretation of how inequality was normalized over the course of the period, but also sheds new light on the constraints that labouring people overcame when they engaged in individual or collective acts of defiance against their 'betters.' It revives domination and subordination as objects of inquiry and demonstrates the ways in which language--at the levels of ideology and social practice--reflected, reproduced, and naturalized inequality over the course of the early modern period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHillary Taylor, \u003cem\u003eMarie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padua\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHillary Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Padua. She previously held a Research Fellowship at Jesus College, Cambridge, and a Lectureship in Early Modern British Social and Economic History at the University of Cambridge. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eEconomic History Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHistorical Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, among other outlets. She received her PhD from Yale University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51276749832466,"sku":"9780198917663","price":114.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b4312ffb-f683-4fbe-82fc-a06aefc50a6b.jpg?v=1747137245","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/language-and-social-relations-in-early-modern-england-9780198917663","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}