Negotiating Exclusion in Early Modern England, 1550-1800

This book examines how individuals and communities defined and negotiated the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion in England between 1550 and 1800. It shows that exclusion was a feature of everyday life for early modern men, women, and children.

Naomi Pullin is Assistant Professor of Early Modern British History at the University of Warwick. Kathryn Woods is Dean of Students at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Introduction: Approaching Early Modern Exclusion and Inclusion Part 1: Exclusion and Social Relations 1. Domestic Exclusions: The Politics of the Household in Early Modern England 2. The Language of Exclusion: "Bastard" in Early Modern England 3. Women and Religious Coexistence in Eighteenth-Century England 4. Failed Friendship and the Negotiation of Exclusion in Eighteenth-Century Polite Society Part 2: The Boundaries of Community 5. The Negotiation of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Westminster Infirmary, 1716-1750 6. Defining the Boundaries of Community?: Experiences of Parochial Inclusion and Pregnancy Outside Wedlock in Early Modern England 7. Hunting, Sociability, and the Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Early Seventeenth-Century England Part 3: Exclusions in Ritual, Law, and Bureaucracy 8. Failing at Patriarchy: Gender, Exclusion and Violence, 1560-1640 9. They "Know as Much at Thirteen as If They Had Been Mid-Wives of Twenty Years Standing": Girls and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern England 10. Inscription and Political Exclusion in Early Modern England. Afterword