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Author : N. J. G. Pounds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521466717
This wide-ranging book, first published in 1994, traces the development of popular culture in England from the Iron Age to the eighteenth century.
Author : Mike Storry,Peter Childs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415680752
In British Cultural Identities, Mike Storry and Peter Childs assess the degree to which being British impinges on the identity of the many people who live in Britain. They analyze contemporary British identity through the various and changing ways in which people who live in the UK position themselves and are positioned by their culture today. Using examples from contemporary and popular culture, each chapter covers one of seven intersecting themes: place and environment education, work and leisure gender, sex and the family youth culture and style class and politics ethnicity and language religion and heritage. This new edition is fully updated to include Britain's relationship with the wider world, changes in university education and testing in schools, the trend towards electronic entertainment and social networking, the new impact of 'class', and the culture of political leaking.
Author : Andrea Ruddick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107652507
This broad-ranging study explores the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England and sets it in its political and constitutional context for the first time. Andrea Ruddick reveals that despite the problematic relationship between nationality and subjecthood in the king of England's domains, a sense of English identity was deeply embedded in the mindset of a significant section of political society. Using previously neglected official records as well as familiar literary sources, the book reassesses the role of the English language in fourteenth-century national sentiment and questions the traditional reliance on the English vernacular as an index of national feeling. Positioning national identity as central to our understanding of late medieval society, culture, religion and politics, the book represents a significant contribution not only to the political history of late medieval England, but also to the growing debate on the nature and origins of states, nations and nationalism in Europe.
Author : Norman John Greville Pounds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : England
ISBN : OCLC:1255743538
Author : N. J. G. Pounds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0521633516
A 'grass roots' cultural history of the English parish from the earliest times to Queen Victoria.
Author : Christopher Durston,Jacqueline Eales
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349244379
The Culture of English Puritanism is a major contribution to the debate on the nature and extent of early modern Puritanism. In their introduction the editors provide an up-to-date survey of the long-standing debate on Puritanism, before proceeding to outline their own definition of the movement. They argue that Puritanism should be defined as a unique and vibrant religious culture, which was grounded in a distinctive psychological outlook and which manifested itself in a set of highly characteristic religious practices. In the subsequent essays, a distinguished group of contributors consider in detail some of the most important aspects of this culture, in particular sermon-gadding, collective fasting, strict observance of Sunday, iconoclasm, and puritan attempts to reform alternative popular culture of their ungodly neighbours. Other contributions chart the channels through which puritan culture was sustained in the 80-year period proceding the English Civil War, the failure of attempts by the puritan government of Interregnum England to impose this puritan culture on the English people, the subsequent emergence of Dissent after 1600.
Author : John Randle
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 0631128832
Author : Billie Melman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 019929688X
In this original and widely researched book, Billie Melman explores the culture of history during the age of modernity. Her book is about the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their representations and the myriad ways in which the English looked at history (sometimes in the most literal sense of 'looking') and made use of it in a social and material urban world, and in their imagination.Covering the period between the Napoleonic Wars and the Coronation of 1953, Melman recoups the work of antiquarians, historians, novelists and publishers, wax modellers, cartoonists and illustrators, painters, playwrights and actors, reformers and educationalists, film stars and their fans, musicians and composers, opera-fans, and radio listeners. Avoiding a separation between 'high' and 'low' culture, Melman analyses nineteenth-century plebeian culture and twentieth-century mass-culture andtheir venues - like Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, panoramas, national monuments like the Tower of London, and films - as well as studying forms of 'minority' art - notably opera. She demonstrates how history was produced and how it circulated from texts, visual images, and sounds, to people andplaces and back to a variety of texts and images. While paying attention to individuals' making-do with culture, Melman considers constrictions of class, gender, the state, and the market-place on the consumption of history.Focusing on two privileged pasts, the Tudor monarchy and the French Revolution, the latter seen as an English event and as the framework for narrating and comprehending history, Melman shows that during the nineteenth century, the most popular, longest-enduring, and most highly commercialized images of the past represented it not as cosy and secure, but rather as dangerous, disorderly, and violent. The past was also imagined as an urban place, rather than as rural. In Melman's account, City notgreen Country, is the centre of a popular version of the past whose central Images are the dungeon, the gallows, and the guillotine.
Author : Kathleen Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521340721
This book, first published in 1995, demonstrates the central role of 'people', the empire, and the citizen in eighteenth-century English popular politics. It shows how the wide-ranging political culture of English towns attuned ordinary men and women to the issues of state power and thus enabled them to stake their own claims in national and imperial affairs.
Author : Jock Wong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107033245
A semantic, pragmatic and cultural interpretation of Singapore English, offering a fascinating glimpse of Singaporean life.
Author : Ladislav Vobr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 809013484X
Author : Nigel Llewellyn
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780231518
How did our ancestors die? Whereas in our own day the subject of death is usually avoided, in pre-Industrial England the rituals and processes of death were present and immediate. People not only surrounded themselves with memento mori, they also sought to keep alive memories of those who had gone before. This continual confrontation with death was enhanced by a rich culture of visual artifacts. In The Art of Death, Nigel Llewellyn explores the meanings behind an astonishing range of these artifacts, and describes the attitudes and practices which lay behind their production and use. Illustrated and explained in this book are an array of little-known objects and images such as death's head spoons, jewels and swords, mourning-rings and fans, wax effigies, church monuments, Dance of Death prints, funeral invitations and ephemera, as well as works by well-known artists, including Holbein, Hogarth and Blake.
Author : Craig Dionne,Steve Mentz
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472113743
A definitive collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue
Author : John Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135912369
The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation. John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. It explores the alleys and garrets of Grub Street, rummages the shelves of bookshops and libraries, peers through printsellers' shop windows and into artists' studios, and slips behind the scenes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It takes us out of Gay and Boswell's London to visit the debating clubs, poetry circles, ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, theatres and assemblies that made the culture of English provincial towns, and shows us how the national landscape became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. It reveals to us a picture of English artistic and literary life in the eighteenth century less familiar, but more suprising, more various and more convincing than any we have seen before.
Author : M. Kaartinen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230598645
Marjo Kaartinen has brought the world of monks, friars, and nuns freshly alive in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Their monastic vows - obedience, poverty, chastity, and stability - still made a difference to them and to the laypeople around them, even when they failed to live up to them. Much of Kaartinen's story is told through the words of the religious themselves, from self-defence to self-criticism, and this makes the reading all the better. Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation helps us understand why some forms of Catholic sensibility lasted so long and why Protestant reformers drew from the very ideals they wanted to undermine.