Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England

Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England

Author: Paul Slack

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-11-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521089487

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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.


Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England

Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England

Author: Andy Wood

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-04-20

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 140394038X

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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.


Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England

Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England

Author: John Walter

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780719074752

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Early modern England was marked by profound changes in economy, society, politics and religion. It is widely believed that the poverty and discontent which these changes often caused resulted in major rebellion and frequent 'riots'. Whereas the politics of the people have often been described as a 'many-headed monster'; spasmodic and violent, and the only means by which the people could gain expression in a highly hierarchical society and a state that denied them a political voice, the essays in this collection argue for the inherently political nature of popular protest through a series of studies of acts of collective protest, up to and including the English Revolution.


Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England

Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England

Author: John Walter

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2013-07-19

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1847793975

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Early modern England was marked by profound changes in economy, society, politics and religion. It is widely believed that the poverty and discontent which these changes often caused resulted in major rebellion and frequent ‘riots’. Whereas the politics of the people have often been described as a ‘many-headed monster’; spasmodic and violent, and the only means by which the people could gain expression in a highly hierarchical society and a state that denied them a political voice, the essays in this collection argue for the inherently political nature of popular protest through a series of studies of acts of collective protest, up to and including the English Revolution. The work of John Walter has played a central role in defining current understanding of the field and has been widely read and cited by those working on the politics of subaltern groups. This collection of essays offers a radical re-evaluation of the nature of crowds and protests during the period, and it will make fascinating reading for historians of the period.


Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England

Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England

Author: Andy Wood

Publisher: Red Globe Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0333637623

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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.


Order and Disorder in Early Modern England

Order and Disorder in Early Modern England

Author: Anthony Fletcher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-06-04

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521349321

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This book attempts both to take stock of directions in the field and to suggest alternative perspectives on some central aspects of the period.


Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England

Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England

Author: Andrew Hadfield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1351922009

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1978 witnessed the publication of Peter Burke's groundbreaking study Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Now in its third edition this remarkable book has for thirty years set the benchmark for cultural historians with its wide ranging and imaginative exploration of early modern European popular culture. In order to celebrate this achievement, and to explore the ways in which perceptions of popular culture have changed in the intervening years a group of leading scholars are brought together in this new volume to examine Burke's thesis in relation to England. Adopting an appropriately interdisciplinary approach, the collection offers an unprecedented survey of the field of popular culture in early modern England as it currently stands, bringing together scholars at the forefront of developments in an expanding area. Taking as its starting point Burke's argument that popular culture was everyone's culture, distinguishing it from high culture, which only a restricted social group could access, it explores an intriguing variety of sources to discover whether this was in fact the case in early modern England. It further explores the meaning and significance of the term 'popular culture' when applied to the early modern period: how did people distinguish between high and low culture - could they in fact do so? Concluded by an Afterword by Peter Burke, the volume provides a vivid sense of the range and significance of early modern popular culture and the difficulties involved in defining and studying it.


The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England

Author: Andrew Hadfield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-23

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 1317042069

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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.


The State and Social Change in Early Modern England, 1550–1640

The State and Social Change in Early Modern England, 1550–1640

Author: S. Hindle

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2000-03-02

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0230288464

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This is a study of the social and cultural implications of the growth of governance in England in the century after 1550. It is principally concerned with the role played by the middling sort in social and political regulation, especially through the use of the law. It discusses the evolution of public policy in the context of contemporary understandings, of economic change; and analyses litigation, arbitration, social welfare, criminal justice, moral regulation and parochial analyses administration as manifestations of the increasing role of the state in early modern England.