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Bride Ales and Penny Weddings - Recreations, Reciprocity, and Regions in Britain from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,459
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Bride Ales and Penny Weddings - Recreations, Reciprocity, and Regions in Britain from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries...

Bride Ales and Penny Weddings - Recreations, Reciprocity, and Regions in Britain from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries (Hardcover)

R.A. Houston

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Some of the poorest regions of historic Britain had some of its most vibrant festivities. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the peoples of northern England, Lowland Scotland, and Wales used extensive celebrations at events such as marriage, along with reciprocal exchange of gifts, to emote a sense of belonging to their locality. Bride Ales and Penny Weddings looks at regionally distinctive practices of giving and receiving wedding gifts, in order to understand social networks and community attitudes. Examining a wide variety of sources over four centuries, the volume examines contributory weddings, where guests paid for their own entertainment and gave money to the couple, to suggest a new view of the societies of 'middle Britain', and re-interpret social and cultural change across Britain. These regions were not old fashioned, as is commonly assumed, but differently fashioned, possessing social priorities that set them apart both from the south of England and from 'the Celtic fringe'. This volume is about informal communities of people whose aim was maintaining and enhancing social cohesion through sociability and reciprocity. Communities relied on negotiation, compromise, and agreement, to create and re-create consensus around more-or-less shared values, expressed in traditions of hospitality and generosity. Ranging across issues of trust and neighbourliness, recreation and leisure, eating and drinking, order and authority, personal lives and public attitudes, R. A. Houston explores many areas of interest not only to social historians, but also literary scholars of the British Isles.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2014
First published: May 2014
Authors: R.A. Houston (Professor of Early Modern history)
Dimensions: 241 x 162 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-968087-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 0-19-968087-6
Barcode: 9780199680870

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