The memory of the people : custom and popular senses of the past in early modern England
Andy Wood
Bok Engelsk 2013
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xiii, 396 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Reformation, custom and the end of medieval England -- Custom and popular memory -- Rights, resources, and social alignments -- Topographies of remembrance -- Textual and verbal ways of remembering -- The politics of popular memory -- Epilogue: resources of hope: working-class memory in rural England.. - Did ordinary people in early modern England have any coherent sense of the past? Andy Wood's pioneering new book charts how popular memory generated a kind of usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources. He explores the genesis of customary law in the medieval period; the politics of popular memory; local identities and traditions; gender and custom; literacy, orality and memory; landscape, space and memory; and the legacy of this cultural world for later generations. Drawing from a wealth of sources ranging from legal proceedings and parochial writings to proverbs and estate papers, he shows how custom formed a body of ideas built up generation after generation from localized patterns of cooperation and conflict. This is a unique account of the intimate connection between landscape, place and identity and of how the poorer and middling sort felt about the world around them.
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| ISBN | 9780521720670. - 9780521896108
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