Faith of Our Fathers

Popular Culture and Belief in Post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4438-0487-5
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 205 Seiten

The study of popular culture has been an abiding preoccupation of historians and other academics, not just in the British Isles but elsewhere too. This volume of essays explores the manifestations of popular culture and belief in England, Ireland and Wales from the Reformation onwards. As an interdisciplinary collection it brings together specialists in English Literature, History, Celtic and Religious Studies. It offers new insights thematically via a selection of diverse contributions. The nexus between religion and popular culture links the contributions together, while the geographical spread of the topic facilitates a dynamic comparative methodology. What emerges from these explorations of rites of passage, festivals, revivalism, print culture and gender is the remarkable resilience of popular culture and the extent to which all levels of society were prepared to compromise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, Joan

Allen, Richard C.

Über Autor(innen)

Joan Allen is a Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Newcastle University and an editor of Labour History Review. She is the author of Joseph Cowen and Popular Radicalism on Tyneside (Monmouth, 2007) and co-edited (with Owen R. Ashton) Papers for the People: a study of the Chartist press (London, 2005).

Richard C. Allen is Reader of Early Modern Cultural History and Head of History at the University of Wales, Newport. His most recent works are Quaker Communities in Early Modern Wales: from resistance to respectability (Cardiff, 2007) and the co-edited collection, Irelands of the Mind: memory and identity in modern Irish culture (Newcastle, 2008).