Alan MacFarlane
The FAmily Life of Ralph Josselin
A Seventeenth-Century Clergyman
New York 1977
Stron XIII+241, format: 12x18,5 cm
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Ralph Josselin, vicar of Earls Colne in Essex from 1641 to his death in 1683, kept for almost forty years a remarkably detailed account of his life—his mental and emotional world as well as his activities. Few diaries from this period afford such a rounded picture of a family from so many aspects. Alan Macfarlane, a historian and lecturer in social anthropology at Cambridge University, explores through the diary Josselin's life as farmer, businessman, Puritan clergyman, neighbour, husband, and father, providing a unique view of a seventeenth-century life from the inside.
Contents
List of plates page vii
List of maps and diagrams vii
List of tables viii
Acknowledgements ix
List of abbreviations and conventions xii
INTRODUCTION
1 Diary-keeping in seventeenth-century England 3
PART 1 The political, ecclesiastical and economic world
2 Ralph Josselin's early life and his political and ecclesiastical career 15
3 Josselin's economic activities (i) : income, expenditure and saving 33
4 Josselin's economic activities (ii) : farming, weather and prices 68
PART II The life-cycle
5 Birth and childhood 81
6 Adolescence, marriage and death 92
PART III The social world: family, kin and neighbours
7 Husband-wife, parents-children 105
8 Other kinship ties 126
9 Ties with godparents, servants and friends 144
10 The relative importance of kin and neighbours 153
PART IV The mental world
11 Attitudes to pain, sin and God 163
12 Dreams, imagery and the structure of thought 183
APPENDIXES
A The fertility of Ralph Josselin's wife 199
B Children and servants: the problem of adolescence 205
c Extracts from records relating to the Josselin family 211
Bibliography 224
Index 235
"The great merit of Macfarlane's. book is that it poses questions; it teaches historians to look very much more closely, and in new ways, at familiar evidence; it brings familiar relationships into the centre of scrutiny; and it offers, in a significant way, the unit of one man's life, and of one man's economic fortunes, as a focus of study." —E. P. Thompson, Midland History
"His two books [The Family Life of Ralph Josselin and Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England] establish Alan Macfarlane as a young historian who has already deepened our understanding of seventeenth-century English society."
—Christopher Hill, Renaissance Quarterly
"Ralph Josselin's diary when subjected to Macfarlane's anthropological tools provides major insights into the life of a yeoman-priest, his community, and the visions peculiar to that lost world."—John J. Waters, New England Quarterly
"Historians... will find the book valuable as well as enormously enjoyable."
—D. H. Pennington, American Historical Review
"By any standards, however exacting, this is a remarkable addition to seventeenth-century studies.... a crisply written and penetrating study of a man's mind, circumstances, and environment.... This is social history with the politics—and the rest of the blood, sweat, and tears—very much left in, as it should be. but all too rarely is." —Times (London) Literary Supplement
