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Author : Barry Reay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Popular Culture in Seventeenth-century England written by Barry Reay and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333541098
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Popular Culture in England, C. 1500-1850 written by Tim Harris and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As scholarly interest in popular culture has grown, more and more British and American universities have been introducing courses in popular culture, now seen as an essential aspect of historical investigation. This volume answers the need for a book focusing on England (unlike Peter Burke's Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (1978), and over a broad time period (unlike Barry Reay's Popular Culture in Seventeenth-Century England (1985)), which will fulfil it's aim of appealing both to specialists and students coming new to the subject. Tim Harris has assembled a very strong team of contributors who will ensure a very lively and interesting collection of essays.
Author : Barry Reay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317872630
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750 written by Barry Reay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the important aspects of popular cultures during the period 1550 to 1750. Barry Reay investigates the dominant beliefs and attitudes across all levels of society as well as looking at different age, gender and religious groups.
Author : Peter Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe written by Peter Burke and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Thomas
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141932406
Total Pages : 931 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Religion and the Decline of Magic written by Keith Thomas and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700, when science and rationalism began to challenge the older systems of belief.
Author : Jane Whittle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191623636
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household written by Jane Whittle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Alice Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk kept a continuous series of household accounts from 1610-1654. Jane Whittle and Elizabeth Griffiths have used the Le Stranges' rich archive to reconstruct the material aspects of family life. This involves looking not only at purchases, but also at home production and gifts; and not only at the luxurious, but at the everyday consumption of food and medical care. Consumption is viewed not just as a set of objects owned, but as a process involving household management, acquisition and appropriation, a process that created and reinforced social links with craftsmen, servants, labourers, and the local community. It is argued that the county gentry provide a missing link in histories of consumption: connecting the fashions of London and the royal court, with those of middling strata of rural England. Recent writing has focused upon the transformation of consumption patterns in the eighteenth century. Here the earlier context is illuminated and, instead of tradition and stability, we find constant change and innovation. Issues of gender permeate the study. Consumption is often viewed as a female activity and the book looks in detail at who managed the provisioning, purchases, and work within the household, how spending on sons and daughters differed, and whether men and women attached different cultural values to household goods. This single household's economy provides a window into some of most significant cultural and economic issues of early modern England: innovations in trade, retail and production, the basis of gentry power, social relations in the countryside, and the gendering of family life.
Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe written by Peter Burke and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the world of popular culture in pre-industrial Europe including the role of minstrels, fools, jugglers, strolling players, and singers of tales. Popular songs, stories, and plays are also discussed.
Author : G. Semenza
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230106447
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The English Renaissance in Popular Culture written by G. Semenza and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers popular culture's confrontations with the history, thought, and major figures of the English Renaissance through an analysis of 'period films,' television productions, popular literature, and punk music.
Author : Sarah F. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317154908
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads written by Sarah F. Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social classes across seventeenth century England. Ballads straddled, and destabilized, the categories of public and private performance spaces, the material and the ephemeral, music and text, and oral and written traditions. Sung by balladmongers in the streets and referenced in theatrical works, they were also pasted to the walls of local taverns and domestic spaces. They titillated and entertained, but also educated audiences on morality and gender hierarchies. Although contemporaneous writers published volumes on the early modern controversy over women and the English witch craze, broadside ballads were perhaps more instrumental in disseminating information about dangerous women and their acoustic qualities. Recent scholarship has explored the representations of witchcraft and malfeasance in English street literature; until now, however, the role of music and embodied performance in communicating female transgression has yet to be investigated. Sarah Williams carefully considers the broadside ballad as a dynamic performative work situated in a unique cultural context. Employing techniques drawn from musical analysis, gender studies, performance studies, and the histories of print and theater, she contends that broadside ballads and their music made connections between various degrees of female crime, the supernatural, and cautionary tales for and about women.
Author : Stuart Gillespie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472555120
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture written by Stuart Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While much has been written on Shakespeare's debt to the classical tradition, less has been said about his roots in the popular culture of his own time. This is the first book to explore the full range of his debts to Elizabethan popular culture. Topics covered include the mystery plays, festive custom, clowns, romance and popular fiction, folklore and superstition, everyday sayings, and popular songs. These essays show how Shakespeare, throughout his dramatic work, used popular culture. A final chapter, which considers ballads with Shakespearean connections in the seventeenth century, shows how popular culture immediately after his time used Shakespeare."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317042077
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of current research on popular culture in the early modern era. For the first time a detailed yet wide-ranging consideration of the breadth and scope of early modern popular culture in England is collected in one volume, highlighting the interplay of 'low' and 'high' modes of cultural production (while also questioning the validity of such terminology). The authors examine how popular culture impacted upon people's everyday lives during the period, helping to define how individuals and groups experienced the world. Issues as disparate as popular reading cultures, games, food and drink, time, textiles, religious belief and superstition, and the function of festivals and rituals are discussed. This research companion will be an essential resource for scholars and students of early modern history and culture.
Author : Sara Schechner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227675
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology written by Sara Schechner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
Author : Graham Parry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131787109X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Seventeenth Century written by Graham Parry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth century was a period of immense turmoil. This book explores the methods by which a distinctive iconography was created for each Stuart king, describes the cultural life of the Civil War period and the Cromwellian Protectorate, and analyses the impact of the antiquarian movement which constructed a new sense of national identity. Through this detailed and fascinating discussion of seventeenth-century society, Graham Parry provides a clear insight into the many forces operating on the literature of the period.
Author : Adam Smyth
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840091
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book A Pleasing Sinne written by Adam Smyth and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the representation and understanding of drink and conviviality in diverse social contexts.
Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521338509
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Coming Over written by David Cressy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-10-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming Over discusses the English migration to New England in the seventeenth century and shows the importance of English connections in the lives of American colonists. David Cressy reviews the information available to prospective migrants, the decisions they had to reach and the actions necessary before they could settle in America. English men and women moved to New England with a variety of motives, and in a multitude of circumstances. 'Puritanism', involving religious harassment in England and the desire to follow God's ordinances in America, was only one of many factors impelling people to move. Rather than developing in wilderness isolation, the society and culture of seventeenth-century New England were constantly shaped by their English roots. A two-way flow of correspondence, messages and information linked colonists to their homeland. Family duties, political sympathies, friendships, business and legal obligations all led to a continuing attachment across the Atlantic. In treating early America from a British perspective, as a part of English history, Professor Cressy provides us with many insights into the seventeenth century.
Author : Michael J. Braddick
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 178327171X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland written by Michael J. Braddick and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of power, strategies of legitimation, and the languages of politics
Author : Sarah Hutton
Publisher : Oxford History of Philosophy
ISBN 13 : 019958611X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century written by Sarah Hutton and published by Oxford History of Philosophy. This book was released on 2015 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy of the 17th Century provides an advanced comprehensive overview of the issues that are informing research on the subject of British philosophy in the seventeenth century, while at the same time offering new directions for research to take. It covers the whole of the seventeenth century, ranging from Francis Bacon to John Locke and Isaac Newton. The book contains five parts: the introductory Part I examines the state of the discipline and the nature of its practitioners as the century unfolded; Part II discusses the leading natural philosophers and the philosophy of nature, including Bacon, Boyle, and Newton; Part III covers knowledge and the human faculty of the understanding; Part IV explores the leading topics in British moral philosophy from the period; and Part V concerns political philosophy. In addition to dealing with canonical authors and celebrated texts, such as Thomas Hobbes and his Leviathan, it discusses many less-well-known figures and debates from the period whose importance is only now being appreciated."--Publisher's description.
