Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780333637616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 227 str.

Andrew Wood

Opis

This text provides the a critical overview of the new social history of politics in early modern England. It examines the shifting place of popular politics within the polity, focusing in particular on collective disorder. Rebellions and riots are examined alongside the deeper political cultures of the commons of Tudor and Stuart England. Attention is given to enclosure and food riots seditious speech elite perceptions of plebeian politics ritual, gender and the forms of popular protest literacy and the impact of print.

Spis treści

Abbreviations.- Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Introduction: Interpreting popular politics in early modern England.- Authority, the law and the state.- Rebellion in Sixteenth Century England.- Riot and Popular Politics in Early Modern England.- The Politics of the People in Stuart England.- Index.

O autorze

ANDY WOOD is Senior Lecturer in social history at the University of East Anglia.

Blurb

Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England reassesses the relationship between politics, social change and popular culture in the period c. 1520-1730. It argues that early modern politics needs to be understood in broad terms, to include not only states and elites, but also disputes over the control of resources and the distribution of power. Andy Wood assesses the history of riot and rebellion in the early modern period, concentrating upon: popular involvement in religious change and political conflict, especially the Reformation and the English Revolution; relations between ruler and ruled; seditious speech; popular politics and the early modern state; custom, the law and popular politics; the impact of literacy and print; and the role of ritual, gender and local identity in popular politics.