Gypsies: An English History

ISBN-13: 9780198768135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 432 str.

David Cressy

Opis

The story of Gypsies in England, from their first appearance in early Tudor times to the present day. A book that disentangles the rich and sometimes lurid myth from the everyday reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of English history.

Recenzje

Gypsies in England from their arrival five centuries ago to recent times can only be followed through literary sources with various shades of demonizing or romanticizing agenda, or through legal records. Both sources are here explored to a groundbreaking extent. ... His re-examination of the widely reported 1753 trial of Mary Squires is particularly successful in getting behind the stereotypes to find clues to lived experience. Frank Bruce, Times Literary Supplement

O autorze

Born and educated in England, David Cressy has made his career in the United States, as a college and university teacher and a prolific author of studies in social history. His work is driven by curiosity about the interactions of elite and popular culture, mainstream and marginal society, and official and unofficial religion. He is currently George III Professor of British History Emeritus at Ohio State University, and Research Professor in Arts and Humanities at Claremont Graduate University, California. A frequent visitor to the United Kingdom, he may also be found exploring the beaches and deserts of the American West.