TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wood,Andy
ED  - Cambridge eBooks.
TI  - The memory of the people: custom and popular senses of the past in early modern England 
SN  - 9781139034739 (ebook)
AV  - KD8896 .W66 2013
U1  - 340.5/709420903 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Customary law
KW  - England
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Reformation, custom and the end of medieval England -- Custom and popular memory -- Rights, resources, and social alignments -- Topographies of remembrance -- Textual and verbal ways of remembering -- The politics of popular memory -- Epilogue: resources of hope: working-class memory in rural England
N2  - 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
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