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Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603-1660

Book information

Publisher
Oxford Paperbacks
Year
1987
ISBN
0192851934, 9780192851932
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25314729 bytes)
Series
Oxford Paperbacks
Pages
352\348
Time added
2015-07-23 04:11:24

Description

What do maypoles, charivari processions, and stoolball matches have to do with the English civil war? A great deal, argues Underdown in this provocative reinterpretation of the English Revolution. Underdown uses case histories of three western counties to show that the war was, above all, the result of profound disagreements among people of all social levels about the moral basis of their communities-that commoners as well as rulers held strong opinions about order and governance. Through an original synthesis of social history and popular culture, Underdown links these regionally diverse political opinions to cultural diversity and shows that local differences in popular allegiance in the civil war strikingly coincided with regional contrasts in the traditional festive culture.

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