The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe contributes to nascent debates on concepts of neighbourliness and belonging, exploring the operation of the pre-modern neighbourhood in social practice. Formal administrative units, such as the manor and the parish, have been the object of much scholarly attention yet the experience and limits of neighbourhood remain understudied. Building on recent advances in the histories of emotions and material culture, this volume explores a variety of themes on residential proximity, from its social, cultural and religious implications to material and economic perspectives. Contributors also investigate the linguistic categories attached to neighbours and neighbourhood, tracing their meaning and use in a variety of settings to understand the ways that language conditioned the relationships it described. Together they contribute to a more socially and experientially grounded understanding of neighbourly experience in pre-modern Europe.

About the Author

Bronach C. Kane is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University. She is co-editor of Women, Agency and the Law, 1300-1700, and the author of works on gender relations, femininity and masculinity among lower-status people in everyday life.

Simon Sandall is Senior Lecturer at the University of Winchester. He is the author of Custom and Popular Memory in the Forest of Dean, c.1550-1832, and has published numerous chapters and articles on society and culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Book Information
ISBN 9781032062075
Author Bronach C. Kane
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 460g