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This comprehensive, interdisciplinary research companion is an essential resource for scholars of early modern history and culture. For the first time a detailed consideration of the scope of early modern popular culture in England is collected in one volume, highlighting the interplay of 'low' and 'high' modes of cultural production. Issues as dis
List of contents
Introduction: Thinking About Popular Culture In Early Modern England; I: Key Issues; 1: Recovering Speech Acts; 2: Youth Culture; 3: Festivals; 4: Popular Reading and Writing; 5: Visual Culture; 6: Myth and Legend; 7: Religious Belief; II: Everyday Life; 8: Courtship, Sex and Marriage; 9: Food and Drink; 10: Work; 11: Gendered Labour; 12: Crime; 13: Popular Xenophobia; 14: Games; 15: Cultures of Mending; III: The Experience of the World; 16: Politics; 17: Riot and Rebellion; 18: Time; 19: Property; 20: Popular Medicine; 21: Superstition and Witchcraft; 22: Military Culture; 23: London and Urban Popular Culture
About the author
Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English and co-Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.
Matthew Dimmock is Professor in English and co-Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.
Abigail Shinn is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK.
Summary
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary research companion is an essential resource for scholars of early modern history and culture. For the first time a detailed consideration of the scope of early modern popular culture in England is collected in one volume, highlighting the interplay of 'low' and 'high' modes of cultural production. Issues as dis
