Imagining Early Modern London : Perceptions and Portrayals of the City from Stow to Strype, 1598-1720 (Paperback)

List of illustrations; Notes on the contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: perceptions and portrayals of London, 1598?1720 J. F. Merritt; Part I. Memorializing the City: 1. John Stow and nostalgic antiquarianism Patrick Collinson; 2. The reshaping of Stow's Survey: Munday, Strype and the Protestant city J. F. Merritt; 3. The arts and acts of memorialization in early modern London Ian W. Archer; Part II. Space, Society and Urban Experience: 4. City, capital and metropolis: the changing shape of seventeenth-century London Vanessa Harding; 5. Gendered spaces: patterns of mobility and perceptions of London's geography, 1660?1750 Robert B. Shoemaker; 6. The publicity of poverty in early eighteenth-century London Tim Hitchcock; 7. 'To recreate and refresh their dulled spirites in the sweet and wholesome ayre': green space and the growth of the city Laura Williams; Part III. Inversion, Instability and the City: 8. From Troynouvant to Heliogabalus's Rome and back: 'order' and its others in the London of John Stow Peter Lake; 9. Perceptions of the crowd in later Stuart London Tim Harris; 10. 'Making fire': conflagration and religious controversy in seventeenth-century London Nigel Smith; Index.