Civil Histories

• 1. Keith Thomas ; 2. A Civil Tongue: Language and Politeness in Early Modern Europe ; 3. Civilized Religion from Renaissance to Reformation and Counter-Reformation ; 4. Civility and Civil Observances in the Early Modern English Funeral ; 5. Sexual Manners: The Other Face of Civility in Early Modern England ; 6. The Civility of Women in Seventeenth-Century England ; 7. Civilization and Deodorization? Smell in Early Modern English Culture ; 8. Civility and the Decline of Magic ; 9. Perceptions of the Metropolis in Seventeenth-Century England ; 10. Civility and Civic Culture in Early Modern England: The Meanings of Urban Freedom ; 11. Arson, Threats of Arson, and Incivility in Early Modern England ; 12. Civility, Civilizing Processes, and the End of Public Punishment in England ; 13. From the German Forests to Civil Society: The Frankish Myth and the Ancient Constitution in France ; 14. Music, Reason, and Politeness: Magic and Witchcraft in the Career of George Fredric Handel ; 15. Wild Wales: Civilizing the Welsh from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries ; 16. The Moral Economy of Business: A Historical Perspective on Ethics and Efficiency ; 17. Civilizing Mammon: Laws, Morals, and the City in Nineteenth-Century England ; 18. Civility and Empire ; 19. The Public and the Private in Modern Britain ; 20. The Published Writings of Keith Thomas, 1957-1998

Peter Burke, Brian Harrison and Paul Slack have achieved the rare feat of persuading the contributors to address a particular theme: that of "civility". It is an appropriate theme, not only with regard to Thomas's scholarly interests, but also in relation to the man himself