ISBN:
9781139034739
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 396 pages)
DDC:
340.5/709420903
Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Gewohnheitsrecht
;
Volksrechte
;
Geschichtsbewusstsein
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
England
Abstract:
Did ordinary people in early modern England have any coherent sense of the past? Andy Wood's pioneering new book charts how popular memory generated a kind of usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources. He explores the genesis of customary law in the medieval period; the politics of popular memory; local identities and traditions; gender and custom; literacy, orality and memory; landscape, space and memory; and the legacy of this cultural world for later generations. Drawing from a wealth of sources ranging from legal proceedings and parochial writings to proverbs and estate papers, he shows how custom formed a body of ideas built up generation after generation from localized patterns of cooperation and conflict. This is a unique account of the intimate connection between landscape, place and identity and of how the poorer and middling sort felt about the world around them.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139034739
URL:
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