Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England

by Paul Slack

• ISBN13: 9780521089487
• ISBN10: 0521089484
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Rebellion, riot and popular unrest have been the theme of a succession of stimulating and influential articles in Past and Present. This selection shows how the various forms of popular protest in England from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries have been reinterpreted by modern scholars. Topics range from the great Tudor rebellions of 1536 and 1549 to the urban disorders in London and the food riots of the eighteenth century. Behind this variety, however, there were important continuities and similarities. Gathered in a single volume, the essays show how detailed studies of popular protest have transformed our knowledge of popular mentality and its relationship with social and economic change.

Table of Contents

Introduction Paul Slack

The Pilgrimage of Grace Reconsidered

Kett's Rebellion in Context

Kett's Rebellion in Context: A Comment

Kett's Rebellion in Context: A Rejoinder

Youth and the English Reformation

Dearth and the Social Order in Early Modern England

The Popular Fear of Catholics during the English Revolution

The Chalk and the Cheese: Contrasts among the English Clubmen

Mutiny and Discontent in English Provincial Armies 1645-1647

English Youth Groups and The Pinder of Wakefield

The London Apprentices as Seventeenth-Century Adolescents

The Sacheverell Riots: The Crowd and the Church in Early Eighteenth-Century London

Popular Protest in Early Hanoverian London

Property, Ideology and Popular Culture in a Gloucestershire Village 1660-1740

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