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2 - Charity Suffereth Long:

Neighbourhood and Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2020

Andy Wood
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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This chapter discusses the collective basis for communal life in early modern England, showing that contemporaries were strongly averse to division (including religious conflict). Rather, Christian social values encouraged an organic sense of community built upon reciprocity and common interest. Paternalism simultaneously reinforced the social order while providing the poor with tangible benefits. Charitable giving was underwritten by Christian social codes. The clergy and gentry had powerful social expectations made of them, especially to provide for the poor. The collective consumption of alcohol underwrote many social rituals, forms of commensality and festivity, and much of the plebeian social world was centred upon the alehouse. Rituals such as Rogationtide, along with other forms of festivity and play, articulated powerful social norms.

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Faith, Hope and Charity
English Neighbourhoods, 1500–1640
, pp. 40 - 80
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Charity Suffereth Long:
  • Andy Wood, University of Durham
  • Book: Faith, Hope and Charity
  • Online publication: 05 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886765.003
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  • Charity Suffereth Long:
  • Andy Wood, University of Durham
  • Book: Faith, Hope and Charity
  • Online publication: 05 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886765.003
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  • Charity Suffereth Long:
  • Andy Wood, University of Durham
  • Book: Faith, Hope and Charity
  • Online publication: 05 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886765.003
Available formats
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