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Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally
literate society in the early modern period. During this period the
spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of
printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to transform
the nature of communication. Examines English, Scottish and Welsh
Oral culture to provide the first pan-British study of the subject.
Covers several aspects of oral culture ranging from tradition, to
memories of the civil war, to changing mechanics for the settling
of debts. The time-span concentrates on the period 1500-1800 but
includes material from outside this time frame, covering a longer
chronolgical span than most other studies to show the link between
early modern and modern oral and literate cultures. -- .
A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson which addresses
fundamental questions about the character of English society during
a period of decisive change. A tribute to the work of Keith
Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship
between enduring structures and social change in early modern
England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the
fissures and connections that developed both within and between
social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid economic and
demographic growth and on related processesof cultural
diversification, the contributors address fundamental questions
about the character of English society during a period of decisive
change. Prefaced by a substantial introduction which traces the
evolution of early modern social history over the last fifty years,
these essays (each of them written by a leading authority) not only
offer state-of-the-art assessments of the historiography but also
represent the latest research on a variety of topics that have been
at the heart of the development of 'the new social history' and its
cultural turn: gender relations and sexuality; governance and
litigation; class and deference; labouring relations,
neighbourliness and reciprocity; and social status and consumption.
STEVE HINDLE is W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the
Huntington Library, San Marino, California. ALEXANDRA SHEPARD is
Reader in History, University of Glasgow. JOHN WALTER is Professor
of History, University of Essex. Contributors: Helen Berry, Adam
Fox, H. R. French, Malcolm Gaskill, Paul Griffiths, Steve Hindle,
Craig Muldrew, Lindsay O'Neill, Alexandra Shepard, Tim Stretton,
Naomi Tadmor, John Walter, Phil Withington, Andy Wood
Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a
standard work on seventeenth-century English social history. A
tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society
re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social
change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the
volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both
within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid
economic and demographic growth and on related processesof cultural
diversification, the contributors address fundamental questions
about the character of English society during a period of decisive
change. Prefaced by a substantial introduction which traces the
evolution of early modern social history over the last fifty years,
these essays (each of them written by a leading authority) not only
offer state-of-the-art assessments of the historiography but also
represent the latest research on a variety of topics that have been
at the heart of the development of 'the new social history' and its
cultural turn: gender relations and sexuality; governance and
litigation; class and deference; labouring relations,
neighbourliness and reciprocity; and social status and consumption.
STEVE HINDLE is W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the
Huntington Library, San Marino, California. ALEXANDRA SHEPARD is
Reader in History, University of Glasgow. JOHN WALTER is Professor
of History, University of Essex. Contributors: Helen Berry, Adam
Fox, H. R. French, Malcolm Gaskill, Paul Griffiths, Steve Hindle,
Craig Muldrew, Lindsay O'Neill, Alexandra Shepard, Tim Stretton,
Naomi Tadmor, John Walter, Phil Withington, Andy Wood
The Press and the People is the first full-length study of cheap
print in early modern Scotland. It traces the production and
distribution of ephemeral publications from the nation's first
presses in the early sixteenth century through to the age of Burns
in the late eighteenth. It explores the development of the Scottish
book trade in general and the production of slight and popular
texts in particular. Focusing on the means by which these works
reached a wide audience, it illuminates the nature of their
circulation in both urban and rural contexts. Specific chapters
examine single-sheet imprints such as ballads and gallows speeches,
newssheets and advertisements, as well as the little pamphlets that
contained almanacs and devotional works, stories and songs. The
book demonstrates just how much more of this literature was once
printed than now survives and argues that Scotland had a much
larger market for such material than has been appreciated. By
illustrating the ways in which Scottish printers combined
well-known titles from England with a distinctive repertoire of
their own, The Press and the People transforms our understanding of
popular literature in early modern Scotland and its contribution to
British culture more widely.
Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 explores the rich oral culture of early modern England. It focuses upon dialect speech and proverbial wisdom, "old wives' tales" and children's lore, historical legends and local customs, scurrilous versifying and scandalous rumour-mongering. Adam Fox demonstrates the extent to which this vernacular world was fundamentally structured by written and printed sources over the course of the period.
This collection is concerned with the articulation, mediation and
reception of authority; the preoccupations and aspirations of both
governors and governed in early modern England. It explores the
nature of authority and the cultural and social experiences of all
social groups, especially insubordinates. These essays probe in
depth the ways in which young people responded to adults, women to
men, workers to masters, and the 'common sort' to their 'betters'.
Early modern people were not passive receptacles of principles of
authority as communicated in, for example, sermons, statutes and
legal process. They actively contributed to the process of
government, thereby exposing its strengths, weaknesses and
ambiguities. In discussing these issues the contributors provide
fresh points of entry to a period of significant cultural and
socio-economic change.
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