Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603-1660 (Oxford Paperbacks)

Underdown, David

ISBN 10: 0192851934 / ISBN 13: 9780192851932

Published by Oxford University Press, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603-1660 (Oxford Paperbacks)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192851934
• ISBN 13: 9780192851932
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

What do maypoles, charivari processions, and stoolball matches have to do with the English civil war? A great deal, argues Underdown in this provocative reinterpretation of the English Revolution. Underdown uses case histories of three western counties to show that the war was, above all, the result of profound disagreements among people of all social levels about the moral basis of their communities--that commoners as well as rulers held strong opinions about order and governance. Through an original synthesis of social history and popular culture, Underdown links these regionally diverse political opinions to cultural diversity and shows that local differences in popular allegiance in the civil war strikingly coincided with regional contrasts in the traditional festive culture.

About the Author

David Underdown is Professor of History at Yale University. His other publications include: Fire From Heaven: Life of an English Town in the Seventeenth Century (1992).