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