The Family Life of Ralph Josselin, a Seventeenth-Century Clergyman: An Essay in Historical Anthropology - Alan Macfarlane - Books - WW Norton & Co - 9780393008494 - May 1, 1977
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The Family Life of Ralph Josselin, a Seventeenth-Century Clergyman: An Essay in Historical Anthropology

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?The great merit of Macfarlane?s book is that it poses questions; it teaches historians to look very much more closely, and in new ways, at familiar evidence; it brings familiar relationships into the centre of scrutiny; and it offers, in a significant way, the unit of one man?s life, and of one man?s economic fortunes, as a focus of study.? ?E. P. Thompson, Midland History

Ralph Josselin, vicar of Earls Colne in Essex from 1641 to his death in 1683, kept for almost forty years a remarkably detailed account of his life?his mental and emotional world as well as his activities. Few diaries from this period afford such a rounded picture of a family from so many aspects. Alan Macfarlane, a historian and lecturer in social anthropology at Cambridge University, explores through the diary Josselin?s life as a farmer, businessman, Puritan clergyman, neighbor, husband, and father, providing a unique view of seventeenth-century life from the inside.


264 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 1, 1977
ISBN13 9780393008494
Publishers WW Norton & Co
Pages 264
Dimensions 122 × 188 × 15 mm   ·   294 g
Language English  

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