These are found to operate both discursively and institutionally, and are deployed to help establish 'sovereign authority' ( Obrigkeit ), as well as to articulate resistance in the form of 'bourgeois republican ideology'.
The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society.
The essays offer an original, comparative, and thematic approach to the many ways in which people utilized communication, space, and symbols to constitute communities in early modern England.
The case studies contained in this volume examine the intersection of politics, religion and society over the entire early modern period, through distinct examples of cultural texts produced and cultural practices followed.
On lay reading see inter alia Alec Ryrie, Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (Oxford, 2013), ch. 11; Kate Narveson, Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England (Abingdon, 2016); Narveson, '“Their practice bringeth little ...
MacKay, Angus, 'Popular Movements and Pogroms in Fifteenth-Century Castile', Past & Present 55 (1972), pp. 33–67. MacKay, Angus, Money, Prices, and Politics in 15th Century Castile (London: Royal Historical Society, 1981).
132 D. M. Palliser , ' Civic mentality and the environment in Tudor York ' , in J. Barry ( ed . ) The Tudor and Stuart Town : A Reader in English Urban History 1530–1688 ( Longman , 1990 ) , pp . 212-13 ; C. Phythian - Adams ...
These are found to operate both discursively and institutionally, and are deployed to help establish 'sovereign authority' ( Obrigkeit ), as well as to articulate resistance in the form of 'bourgeois republican ideology'.
The volume offers insights into the historicity of the very concept of “conversion.” One widely accepted modern notion of the phenomenon simply expresses denominational change.
National Consciousness, History, and Political Culture in Early-modern Europe