Title: Popular cultures in England, 1550-1750
First published: 1998
Description: This book - the first scholarly synthesis of its kind designed for a student and non-specialist readership - investigates the domains of belief and behaviour in the everyday lives of the rural and urban communities of early modern England.

Barry Reay uses both primary and secondary sources to recapture, and explore, the shared attitudes and values to be found amongst these communities.

To do so, he has deliberately chosen to focus on areas where there is already a sophisticated historiography, so he is able to draw on a wealth of recent scholarship as well as his own research; but he also uses much material from the past to give readers a feel for early modern modes of description. (As he shows, the language of the record can often be as illuminating to the social historian as the events or objects recorded.).
Subjects: Social life and customs, Popular culture, History, Popular culture, great britain, England, social life and customs, Culture populaire, Histoire, Mœurs et coutumes, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, Cultural, Manners and customs, Popular culture--history, Popular culture--england--history--17th century, Popular culture--england--history--16th century, Popular culture--england--history--18th century, Da320 .r43 1998, 306/.0942
Places: England
Time periods: 17th century, 16th century, 18th century
LC classification: DA320 .R43 1998