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The Politics of Address in Early‐Modern England
Author(s) -
POSTLES DAVE
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2005.00248.x
Subject(s) - closeness , rhetorical question , politics , perception , representation (politics) , sociology , social psychology , inclusion (mineral) , social relation , political science , epistemology , psychology , social science , law , linguistics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , mathematics
Whilst historians’ perceptions of the social organization of early‐modern England have recently been dichotomized – perceived from either national or local levels – both interpretations rely on sources that are inherently very rhetorical in their representation of self and others. Is there another way of approaching local social relations? Perhaps there is much to be appreciated by a return to questions of social interaction, in particular at that most basic level of how people addressed each other, demonstrating social distance and closeness, exclusion and inclusion.