Author : Andy Wood
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0333637623
This text provides a critical overview of the new social history of politics in early modern England. It examines the shifting place of popular politics within the polity, focusing in particular on collective disorder.
Author : David Underdown
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Oxford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192851932
What have maypoles, charivari processions, and stoolball matches to do with the English Civil War? A great deal, argues David Underdown. Using three western counties as a case-study, he shows that the war was neither a dispute confined to the elite nor a class struggle of the 'middling sort' against a discredited aristocracy. It was in fact the result of profound disagreements among people of all social levels about the moral basis of their communities; commoners as well as ruler held strong opinions about order and governance. But these opinions varied from place to place, and through a pioneering synthesis of social history and popular culture, Underdown relates political diversity to cultural diversity, and shows that local difference in popular allegiance in the Civil War coincided with regional contrast in the traditional festive culture. The book is thus an important reinterpretation of both the English Revolution and the relationship between society, politics, andculture in the seventeenth century.
Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1317042077
The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of current research on popular culture in the early modern era. For the first time a detailed yet wide-ranging consideration of the breadth and scope of early modern popular culture in England is collected in one volume, highlighting the interplay of 'low' and 'high' modes of cultural production (while also questioning the validity of such terminology). The authors examine how popular culture impacted upon people's everyday lives during the period, helping to define how individuals and groups experienced the world. Issues as disparate as popular reading cultures, games, food and drink, time, textiles, religious belief and superstition, and the function of festivals and rituals are discussed. This research companion will be an essential resource for scholars and students of early modern history and culture.
Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 1984-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521250358
Rebellion, riot and popular unrest have been the theme of a succession of stimulating and influential articles in Past and Present. This selection shows how the various forms of popular protest in England from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries have been reinterpreted by modern scholars. Topics range from the great Tudor rebellions of 1536 and 1549 to the urban disorders in London and the food riots of the eighteenth century. Behind this variety, however, there were important continuities and similarities. Gathered in a single volume, the essays show how detailed studies of popular protest have transformed our knowledge of popular mentality and its relationship with social and economic change.
Author : John Walter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719074752
This collection of essays offers a radical re-evaluation of the nature of crowds and popular protest in the early modern period
Author : Andy Wood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 140394038X
Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England reassesses the relationship between politics, social change and popular culture in the period c. 1520-1730. It argues that early modern politics needs to be understood in broad terms, to include not only states and elites, but also disputes over the control of resources and the distribution of power. Andy Wood assesses the history of riot and rebellion in the early modern period, concentrating upon: popular involvement in religious change and political conflict, especially the Reformation and the English Revolution; relations between ruler and ruled; seditious speech; popular politics and the early modern state; custom, the law and popular politics; the impact of literacy and print; and the role of ritual, gender and local identity in popular politics.
Author : Susan D. Amussen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1350020699
Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640 integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early modern English society. Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown examine political scandals and familiar characters-including scolds, cuckolds and witches-to show how their behaviour turned the ordered world around them upside down in very specific, gendered ways. Using case studies from theatre, civic ritual and witchcraft, the book demonstrates how ideas of gendered inversion, failed patriarchs, and disorderly women permeate the mental world of early modern England. Amussen and Underdown show both how these ideas were central to understanding society and politics as well as the ways in which both women and men were disciplined formally and informally for inverting the gender order. In doing so, they give a glimpse of how we can connect different dimensions of early modern society. This is a vital study for anyone interested in understanding the connections between social practice, culture, and politics in 16th- and 17th-century England.
Author : Andy Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 052189610X
The Memory of the People is a major study of popular memory in the early modern period.
Author : David Underdown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198206125
Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of early modern history, A Freeborn People is a provocative exploration of the ways in which the political cultures of the elite and of the common people intersected during the seventeenth century. David Underdown shows that the two worlds were not as separate as historians have often thought them to be; English men and women of all social levels had similar expectations about good government and about the traditional liberties available to them under the "Ancient Constitution". Throughout the century, both levels of politics were also powerfully influenced by prevailing assumptions about gender roles, and, especially in the years before the civil wars, by fears that the country was threatened by evil forces of satanic inversion. This dramatic reinterpretation of the Stuart period, based on the author's acclaimed 1992 Ford Lectures, begins a new chapter in the continuing debate over the historical meaning of Britain's seventeenth-century revolutions.
Author : Barry Reay
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
