Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 296 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 658 g
Reihe: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
The People of Cirencester, 1117-1643
Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 296 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 658 g
Reihe: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
ISBN: 978-1-84383-671-1
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
Makes original contributions to late medieval and early modern historiography, including detailed, contextualized studies of the 'Lancastrian revolution', the Reformation and the English Revolution.
Commune, Country and Commonwealth suggests that towns like Cirencester are a missing link connecting local and national history, in the immensely formative centuries from Magna Carta to the English Revolution. Focused on atown that made highly significant interventions in national constitutional development, it describes recurring struggles to achieve communal solidarity and independence in a society continuously and prescriptively divided by grossinequalities of class and status. The result is a social and political history of a great trans-generational epic in which local and national influences constantly interacted.
From the generation of Magna Carta to the regicides of Edward II and Richard II, through the vernacular revolution of the 'long fifteenth century' and the chaos of state reformations to the great revival that ended in the constitutional wars of the 1640s, the epic was united by strategic location and by systemic, 'structural' inequalities that were sometimes mitigated but never resolved. Individual and group personalities emerge from every chapter, but the 'personality' that dominates them all, Rollison argues, is a commune with 'a mind of its own', continuously regenerated by enduring, strategic realities. An afterword describes the birth and development of a new, 'rural' myth and identity and suggests some archival pathways for the exploration of a legendary English town in the modern and postmodern, industrial and post-industrial epochs.
DAVID ROLLISON is Honorary Research Associate in History, University of Sydney. DAVE ROLLISON isHonorary Research Associate in History, University of Sydney.
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Introduction: Commune at the cross roads
A domination of abbots
The crisis of the early fourteenth century
Classes of the commune before the Black Death
The struggle continues, 1335-1399
A turning point: the generation of 1400
Highpoint of vernacular religion: building a church, 1400-1548
Classes of the commune in 1522
Surviving Reformation: the rule of Robert Strange, 1539-1570
'The tyranny of infected members called papists': the Strange regime under challenge, c.1551-1580
Phoenix arising: crises and growth, 1550-1650
Only the poor will be saved: the preacher and the artisans
Gentlemen and commons of the Seven Hundreds
Immigrants
The revival of the parish
'More than the freeholders ought to have voices': parliamentarianism in one 'countrey', 1571-1643
'Moments of decision', August 1642 to February 1643
Afterword: Rural sunrise
