‘To Avoide All Envye, Malys, Grudge and Displeasure’: sociability and social networking at the London wardmote inquest, c.1470–1540

Berry, C (2017) '‘To Avoide All Envye, Malys, Grudge and Displeasure’: sociability and social networking at the London wardmote inquest, c.1470–1540.' The London Journal, 42 (3). pp. 201-217.

Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2017.1378058

Abstract

This study considers the London wardmote inquest as a venue for social networking in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It uses a combination of social network analysis (SNA) of wills and a set of ordinances for the conduct of wardmotes written by the jurors of Aldersgate ward in 1540. Wardmotes were an important venue for men to accrue social capital and ‘respectability’ in the eyes of their neighbours and develop personal connections which were crucial for social and economic advancement in the pre-modern city. Such advancement is evidenced in the later office holding careers of jurors and their importance in parish social networks. The meeting of the inquest was a potentially fraught occasion of conflicting loyalties which required close policing in order to engender the sociability key to its role as a venue for networking.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: sociability, social network analysis, fifteenth-century, sixteenth-century, Aldersgate, Portsoken
Divisions: School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
UoA: History
Date Deposited: 09 Jun 2020 11:40
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2022 17:39
ISSN: 0305-8034
URI / Page ID: https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/13245
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