Popular Culture In Early Modern Europe

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351910002

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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe by Peter Burke Pdf

The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to bear on every aspect of history, and have transformed our understanding of the past. First published in 1978, this study examines the broad sweep of pre-industrial Europe's popular culture. From the world of the professional entertainer to the songs, stories, rituals and plays of ordinary people, it shows how the attitudes and values of the otherwise inarticulate shaped - and were shaped by - the shifting social, religious and political conditions of European society between 1500 and 1800. This third edition of Peter Burke's groundbreaking study has been published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the book's publication in 1978. It provides a new introduction reflecting the growth of cultural history, and its increasing influence on 'mainstream' history, as well as an extensive supplementary bibliography which further adds to the information about new research in the area.

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474324812

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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe by Peter Burke Pdf

Author : Michael Mullett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000424430

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Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Michael Mullett Pdf

This book, first published in 1987, looks at the culture of the masses and at the political language and actions of the crowd. It examines the enduring traits of a European demotic culture that was largely non-literate, and it then goes on to show how the political outlook of the lower classes arose from the moral attitudes contained in their culture, a culture that was deeply suffused by Christianity. Unlike upper-class culture, popular culture is resistant to change and has to be studied over a long period – in this case the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Because its themes – popular social values, riot and revolt – are pervasive over both time and space, the book’s geographical coverage is extensive, taking in most of western and central Europe.

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351922005

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Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England by Andrew Hadfield Pdf

1978 witnessed the publication of Peter Burke's groundbreaking study Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Now in its third edition this remarkable book has for thirty years set the benchmark for cultural historians with its wide ranging and imaginative exploration of early modern European popular culture. In order to celebrate this achievement, and to explore the ways in which perceptions of popular culture have changed in the intervening years a group of leading scholars are brought together in this new volume to examine Burke's thesis in relation to England. Adopting an appropriately interdisciplinary approach, the collection offers an unprecedented survey of the field of popular culture in early modern England as it currently stands, bringing together scholars at the forefront of developments in an expanding area. Taking as its starting point Burke's argument that popular culture was everyone's culture, distinguishing it from high culture, which only a restricted social group could access, it explores an intriguing variety of sources to discover whether this was in fact the case in early modern England. It further explores the meaning and significance of the term 'popular culture' when applied to the early modern period: how did people distinguish between high and low culture - could they in fact do so? Concluded by an Afterword by Peter Burke, the volume provides a vivid sense of the range and significance of early modern popular culture and the difficulties involved in defining and studying it.

Author : Andrew Hadfield,Matthew Dimmock,Abigail Shinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317042075

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England by Andrew Hadfield,Matthew Dimmock,Abigail Shinn Pdf

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of current research on popular culture in the early modern era. For the first time a detailed yet wide-ranging consideration of the breadth and scope of early modern popular culture in England is collected in one volume, highlighting the interplay of 'low' and 'high' modes of cultural production (while also questioning the validity of such terminology). The authors examine how popular culture impacted upon people's everyday lives during the period, helping to define how individuals and groups experienced the world. Issues as disparate as popular reading cultures, games, food and drink, time, textiles, religious belief and superstition, and the function of festivals and rituals are discussed. This research companion will be an essential resource for scholars and students of early modern history and culture.

Author : Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110854305

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Understanding Popular Culture by Steven L. Kaplan Pdf

Understanding Popular Culture

Author : Cesare Cuttica,Glenn Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317322245

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Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe by Cesare Cuttica,Glenn Burgess Pdf

The 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of ‘absolutism’ and ‘monarchism’, examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.

Author : Kasper von Greyerz
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195327656

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Religion and Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 by Kasper von Greyerz Pdf

In the pre-industrial societies of early modern Europe, religion was a vessel of fundamental importance in making sense of personal and collective social, cultural and spiritual exercises. This text presents Kaspar von Greyerz's important overview and interpretation of the religions and cultures of Early Modern Europe.

Author : Timothy McCall,Sean Roberts
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781612480930

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Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe by Timothy McCall,Sean Roberts Pdf

Secrets in all their variety permeated early modern Europe, from the whispers of ambassadors at court to the emphatically publicized books of home remedies that flew from presses and booksellers’ shops. This interdisciplinary volume draws on approaches from art history and cultural studies to investigate the manifestations of secrecy in printed books and drawings, staircases and narrative paintings, ecclesiastical furnishings and engravers’ tools. Topics include how patrons of art and architecture deployed secrets to construct meanings and distinguish audiences, and how artists and patrons manipulated the content and display of the subject matter of artworks to create an aura of exclusive access and privilege. Essays examine the ways in which popes and princes skillfully deployed secrets in works of art to maximize social control, and how artists, printers, and folk healers promoted their wares through the impression of valuable, mysterious knowledge. The authors contributing to the volume represent both established authorities in their field as well as emerging voices. This volume will have wide appeal for historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introducing readers to a fascinating and often unexplored component of early modern culture.

Author : Andrea Brady,Emily Butterworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135191955

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The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe by Andrea Brady,Emily Butterworth Pdf

Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. They explore elite and popular culture, women and men’s experiences, and the encounter between East and West, providing a comparative view on the range of personal, political and social practices with which early modern people planned for, imagined, manipulated or even rejected the future. Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. With a foreword by Peter Burke.

Author : Barbara B. Diefendorf,Carla Alison Hesse
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0472104705

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Culture and Identity in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800) by Barbara B. Diefendorf,Carla Alison Hesse Pdf

Explores Natalie Zemon Davis's concept of history as a dialogue, not only with the past, but with other historians.

Author : Charlie R. Steen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000733334

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A Cultural History of Early Modern Europe by Charlie R. Steen Pdf

A Cultural History of Early Modern Europe examines the relationships that developed in cities from the time of the late Renaissance through to the Napoleonic period, exploring culture in the broadest sense by selecting a variety of sources not commonly used in history books, such as plays, popular songs, sketches, and documents created by ordinary people. Extending from 1480 to 1820, the book traces the flourishing cultural life of key European cities and the opportunities that emerged for ordinary people to engage with new forms of creative expression, such as literature, theatre, music, and dance. Arranged chronologically, each chapter in the volume begins with an overview of the period being discussed and an introduction to the key figures. Cultural issues in political, religious, and social life are addressed in each section, providing an insight into life in the cities most important to the creative developments of the time. Throughout the book, narrative history is balanced with primary sources and illustrations allowing the reader to grasp the cultural changes of the period and their effect on public and private life. A Cultural History of Early Modern Europe is ideal for students of early modern European cultural history and early modern Europe.

Author : Catherine Richardson,Tara Hamling,David Gaimster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317042846

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The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe by Catherine Richardson,Tara Hamling,David Gaimster Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established field of multi-disciplinary research. The volume provides a rounded, accessible collection of work on the nature and significance of materiality in early modern Europe – a term that embraces a vast range of objects as well as addressing a wide variety of human interactions with their physical environments. This stimulating view of materiality is distinctive in asking questions about the whole material world as a context for lived experience, and the book considers material interactions at all social levels. There are 27 chapters by leading experts as well as 13 feature object studies to highlight specific items that have survived from this period (defined broadly as c.1500–c.1800). These contributions explore the things people acquired, owned, treasured, displayed and discarded, the spaces in which people used and thought about things, the social relationships which cluster around goods – between producers, vendors and consumers of various kinds – and the way knowledge travels around those circuits of connection. The content also engages with wider issues such as the relationship between public and private life, the changing connections between the sacred and the profane, or the effects of gender and social status upon lived experience. Constructed as an accessible, wide-ranging guide to research practice, the book describes and represents the methods which have been developed within various disciplines for analysing pre-modern material culture. It comprises four sections which open up the approaches of various disciplines to non-specialists: ‘Definitions, disciplines, new directions’, ‘Contexts and categories’, ‘Object studies’ and ‘Material culture in action’. This volume addresses the need for sustained, coherent comment on the state, breadth and potential of this lively new field, including the work of historians, art historians, museum curators, archaeologists, social scientists and literary scholars. It consolidates and communicates recent developments and considers how we might take forward a multi-disciplinary research agenda for the study of material culture in periods before the mass production of goods.

Author : R.A. Houston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317879268

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Literacy in Early Modern Europe by R.A. Houston Pdf

The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expanded. Rab Houston explores the importance of education, literacy and popular culture in Europe during the period of transition from mass illiteracy to mass literacy. He draws his examples for all over the continent; and concentrates on the experience of ordinary men and women, rather than just privileged and exceptional elites.

Author : Serena Ferente,Lovro Kunčević,Miles Pattenden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351255028

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Cultures of Voting in Pre-modern Europe by Serena Ferente,Lovro Kunčević,Miles Pattenden Pdf

Cultures of Voting in Pre-modern Europe examines the norms and practices of collective decision-making across pre-modern European history, east and west, and their influence in shaping both intra- and inter-communal relationships. Bringing together the work of twenty specialist contributors, this volume offers a unique range of case studies from Ancient Greece to the eighteenth century, and explores voting in a range of different contexts with analysis that encompasses constitutional and ecclesiastical history, social and cultural history, the history of material culture and of political thought. Together the case-studies illustrate the influence of ancient models and ideas of voting on medieval and early modern collectivities and document the cultural and conceptual exchange between different spheres in which voting took place. Above all, they foreground voting as a crucial element of Europe’s common political heritage and raise questions about the contribution of pre-modern cultures of voting to modern political and institutional developments. Offering a wide chronological and geographical scope, Cultures of Voting in Pre-modern Europe is aimed at scholars and students of the history of voting and is a fascinating contribution to the key debates that surround voting today.