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Title:

THE MEMORY OF THE PEOPLE
CUSTOM AND POPULAR SENSES OF THE PAST IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

By:

Andy Wood

Format:

Paperback

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£28.00

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ISBN 10:

0521720672

ISBN 13:

9780521720670

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

15 August, 2013

Pages:

412

Description:

The Memory of the People is a major study of popular memory in the early modern period.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

3 b/w illus.

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Winner of American Historical Association Leo Gershoy Award 2014

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