Title: Commune, country and commonwealth :
Authors: Rollison, David,
Date: 2011
Publisher: The Boydell Press,
Physical description: xi, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Contents: Introduction : commune at the crossroads -- A domination of abbots -- The crisis of the early fourteenth century -- Classes of the commune before the Black Death -- The struggle continues, 1335-99 -- A durning-point : the generation of 1400 -- Highpoint of vernacular religion : building a church, 1400-1548 -- Classes of the commune in 1522 -- Surviving Reformation : the rule of Robert Strange, 1539-70 -- 'The tyranny of infected members called papists' : the Strange regime under challenge, c. 1551-80 -- Phoenix arising : crises and growth, 1550-1650 -- Only the poor will be saved : the preacher and the artisans -- Gentlemen and commons of the Seven Hundreds -- Immigrants -- The revival of the parish -- 'More than freeholders ought to have voices' : parliamentarianism in one 'countrey', 1571-1643 -- 'Moments of decision', August 1642 to February 1643 -- Afterword : rural sunrise.
Subject headings (LCSH): Cirencester (England)--History.; Cirencester (England)--Politics and government.; Cirencester (England)--Social conditions.; Cirencester (England)--Social life and customs.