Dr Julia Merritt is Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Sheffield. Her previous publications include The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1621-1641 (Cambridge University Press 1996).
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.
