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Commune, Country and Commonwealth: The People of Cirencester, 1117-1643 (Hardcover)
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Commune, Country and Commonwealth: The People of Cirencester, 1117-1643 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
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Makes original contributions to late medieval and early modern
historiography, including detailed, contextualized studies of the
'Lancastrian revolution', the Reformation and the English
Revolution. Commune, Country and Commonwealth suggests that towns
like Cirencester are a missing link connecting local and national
history, in the immensely formative centuries from Magna Carta to
the English Revolution. Focused on atown that made highly
significant interventions in national constitutional development,
it describes recurring struggles to achieve communal solidarity and
independence in a society continuously and prescriptively divided
by grossinequalities of class and status. The result is a social
and political history of a great trans-generational epic in which
local and national influences constantly interacted. From the
generation of Magna Carta to the regicides of Edward II and Richard
II, through the vernacular revolution of the 'long fifteenth
century' and the chaos of state reformations to the great revival
that ended in the constitutional wars of the 1640s, the epic was
united by strategic location and by systemic, 'structural'
inequalities that were sometimes mitigated but never resolved.
Individual and group personalities emerge from every chapter, but
the 'personality' that dominates them all, Rollison argues, is a
commune with 'a mind of its own', continuously regenerated by
enduring, strategic realities. An afterword describes the birth and
development of a new, 'rural' myth and identity and suggests some
archival pathways for the exploration of a legendary English town
in the modern and postmodern, industrial and post-industrial
epochs. DAVID ROLLISON is Honorary Research Associate in History,
University of Sydney. DAVE ROLLISON isHonorary Research Associate
in History, University of Sydney.
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