Life in Early Modern London

This webpage is intended to guide undergraduates researching London in the Early Modern
period. If you have any questions or recommendations for the page, please contact
Leigh Anne Palmer, Librarian for English and American Literature.

Subject Terms

Search the MSEL catalog using these subject terms:

Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Theater--England--London--History.

Cities and towns -- England -- History.
Cities and towns -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Cities and towns -- England -- History -- 17th century.

Books

Archer, Ian W. The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1991.
Library Services Center DA680 .A741 1991

Barry, Jonathan, ed. The Tudor and Stuart Town: A Reader in English Urban History, 1530-1688. New York: Longman, 1990.
Eisenhower Stacks HT133 .T831 1990

Clark, Peter, and Paul Slack, eds. Crisis and Order in English Towns, 1500-1700: Essays in Urban History. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1972.
Eisenhower Stacks HT133 .C54 1972

Dillon, Janette. Theatre, Court and City, 1595-1610: Drama and Social Space in London. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Eisenhower D-Level Blue Labels PN2596.L6 D55 2000

Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare's London. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Eisenhower D-Level Blue Labels PN 2596 .L6 G87 1996

Hohenberg, Paul M., and Lynn Hollen Lees. The Making of Urban Europe, 1000–1994. Cambridge, Mass., 1995.
Eisenhower Stacks HT131 .H581 1985

Jones, Norman. God and the Moneylenders: Usury and Law in Early Modern England. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
Eisenhower Government Publications-Law KD1740.J66 1989

O'Brien, Patrick, ed. Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London. Cambridge, U.K., and New York, 2001.
Eisenhower Stacks HT131.U688 2001

Paster, Gail Kern. The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare. Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
Eisenhower Stacks PO658.C49 P3 1985

Picard, Liza. Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.
Eisenhower Stacks DA680.P533 2004

Rappaport, Steve. Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Eisenhower Stacks HN398.L7 R371 1989

Slack, Paul. From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
Eisenhower Stacks HV249.E89 S55 1998

Slack, Paul. Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England. London: Longman, 1988.
Eisenhower Stacks HC254.4 .S421 1988

Wheatley, Henry Benjamin and Peter Cunningham. London, Past and Present; a Dictionary of Its History, Associations, and Traditions. Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1968. 3 vols.
Eisenhower Stacks DA 679.W5

Zimmerman, Susan, and Ronald F.E. Weissman, eds. Urban Life in the Renaissance. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989.
Eisenhower Stacks HT131 .U6951 1989

Webpages

Renaissance: The Elizabethan World

London's Past Online

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