This is the first comprehensive modern account of the history of the Isle of Man, through the years between the establishment of the Stanley lordship early in the fifteenth century and the Revestment of 1830 by which the Island’s lordship was returned to the English crown.
Focusing on social and economic aspects, it traces developments in society, economy, religion and the Island church, education and literacy, daily life, arts and culture, and landscape and the built environment. Generously illustrated, it explores demographic changes, charts the growth of trade, and surveys social and cultural change including the changing status of the Manx language. It discusses disputes over land ownership, considers improvements in agriculture and fishing, and examines the encouragement of industry. Throughout the book emphasises the distinctiveness of the Manx experience, connected to, but different from the history of England, and of Scotland and Ireland.
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Introduction –
Catriona Mackie
1. Society and Economy in the Stanley Period –
J.R. Dickinson, incorporating contributions by Nigel G. Crowe and J.R. Roscow
2. Religion and the Island Church –
Nigel Yates, incorporating contributions by Frances Coakley, Peter Davey, Tim Grass, Priscilla Lewthwaite, Pat Mc Clure and Jennifer Platten
3. Daily Life –
Michael Hoy,
incorporating contributions by Kit Gawne, Nick Johnson, Chris Pageand Jennifer Platten
4. Arts and Culture –
Fenella Bazin
, incorporating contributions by Mike Clague, Ulla Corkill, Yvonne Cresswell, Colette Davies, Michael Hoy, Sue King, Christopher Lewin, Catriona Mackie, Stephen Miller and Tim Thornton
5. Landscape and the Built Environment –
Catriona Mackie, incorporating contributions by Nigel G. Crowe, Peter Davey, Andrew C.C. Johnson and Patricia Tutt
Conclusion –
Catriona Mackie
Appendix I: Lords of Man – 1405-1830
Appendix II: Bishops of Sodor and Man – 1405-1830
Appendix III: Abbots of Rushen – 1408-1540
Bibliography
Index
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TIM THORNTON is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of and a Professor of History at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author, amongst other works, of Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480-1560 (2000), Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England (2006) and The Channel Islands, 1370-1640 (2012), all published by Boydell and Brewer.