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Popular cultures in England, 1550-1750
- Title
- Popular cultures in England, 1550-1750 / Barry Reay.
- Author
- Reay, Barry.
- Publication
- New York ; London : Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.
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- Description
- ix, 235 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This book - the first scholarly synthesis of its kind designed for a student and non-specialist readership - investigates the domains of belief and behaviour in the everyday lives of the rural and urban communities of early modern England.
- Barry Reay uses both primary and secondary sources to recapture, and explore, the shared attitudes and values to be found amongst these communities.
- To do so, he has deliberately chosen to focus on areas where there is already a sophisticated historiography, so he is able to draw on a wealth of recent scholarship as well as his own research; but he also uses much material from the past to give readers a feel for early modern modes of description. (As he shows, the language of the record can often be as illuminating to the social historian as the events or objects recorded.).
- Series Statement
- Themes in British social history
- Uniform Title
- Themes in British social history.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-228) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Sexualities -- 2. Orality, Literacy, and Print -- 3. Religions -- 4. Witchcraft -- 5. Festive Drama and Ritual -- 6. Riots and the Law -- 7. Popular Cultures.
- ISBN
- 0582292964
- 0582489547 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 98016046
- OCLC
- 317407687
- ocn317407687
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries