Introduction: The Great World of Early Modern London

By the late sixteenth century London was becoming the hub of an integrated national market linking the city to the countryside.2 It was also the national capital, where increasing numbers of people came to conduct legal and political business and, often, to enjoy the pleasures of the metropolis.3 A...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Huntington Library quarterly 2008-03, Vol.71 (1), p.1-9
Hauptverfasser: Harkness, Deborah, Howard, Jean E.
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Zusammenfassung:By the late sixteenth century London was becoming the hub of an integrated national market linking the city to the countryside.2 It was also the national capital, where increasing numbers of people came to conduct legal and political business and, often, to enjoy the pleasures of the metropolis.3 A number of essays in this volume deal with the places, like Smithfield, where people came from the countryside to trade their wares. Long linked by trade and diplomacy to continental Europe, by the mid-sixteenth century London was involved in new trading ventures that vastly expanded the city's imbrication with far-flung commercial and cultural networks.\n Though its preparation was rough and hasty at first, by the Elizabethan period the food on offer in London's better-known dining establishments could please even the most sophisticated European palates.
ISSN:0018-7895
1544-399X
DOI:10.1525/hlq.2008.71.1.1