The People and Politics
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Discussion topics
- What were the 'points of contact' between rulers and ruled in the early modern period?
- 'The people had no role to play in politics.' Discuss.
- Which values or ideology do we find in early modern popular politics of this period?
- Were early modern riots and rebellions conservative in their aims?
Documents
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Audio Links
- BBC Radio 4 'In Our Time' programme on Seventeenth Century Print Culture
- 'Steps to a Public Sphere': podcast discussion of David Cayley with Robert Tittler, Joe Ward and Kevin Pask ('The Origins of the Modern Public', part 11)
Secondary literature
Selected key texts
- B. Capp, 'Riot and Rebellion' in B. Kumin (ed.), The European World (2nd ed.; 2014) (ebook)
- P. Blickle (ed.), Resistance, Representation and Community (1998)
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W. te Brake, Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics (1998) (ebook)
- S. Cohn (ed.), Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe (2005) [Collection of Primary Sources]
- T. Harris (ed.), The Politics of the Excluded, 1500-1850 (2002) (ebook)
- B. Kümin & A. Würgler, ‘Petitions, gravamina and the early modern state’, Parliaments, Estates and Representation, vol. 17 (1997)
- M. Mullett, Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1987)
- J.C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985)
- E. P. Thompason, 'The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century', Past and Present, vol. 50 (Feb., 1971), 76-136.
- A. Wood, Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England (2002) (ebook)
Further reading
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A. Black, ‘ Communal democracy and its history’, Political Studies 45 (1997)
- L. L. Carroll, 'Carnival Rites as Vehicles of Protest in Renaissance Venice', The Sixteenth Century Journal 16/4 (1985)
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J. Fortea Pérez, ‘ The Cortes of Castile and Philip II’s fiscal policy’, Parliaments, Estates and Representation 11 (1991)
- A. Fletcher and D. MacCulloch, Tudor Rebellions (2005) (ebook)
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C. Friedrichs, The Early Modern City (1995)
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M. Graves, The Parliaments of Early Modern Europe (2001)
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R. Head, Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons: Social Order and Political Language in a Swiss Mountain Canton, 1470-1620 (1995)
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M.R. Hunt, The middling sort: commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780 (1996) (ebook), ch. 8
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J.R. Kent, 'The centre and the localities: state formation and parish government in England, circa 1640-1740', Historical Journal 38 (1995)
- C. Larquie, ‘Popular Uprisings in Spain in the Mid-Seventeenth Century’, Renaissance and Modern Studies, 26 (1982)
- C. D. Liddy, ‘Urban Enclosure Riots: Risings of the Commons in English Towns, 1480–1525’, Past and Present 226 (2015), 41-77
- " and Jelle Haemers, 'Popular Politics in the Late Medieval City: York and Bruges', English Historical Review 128 (2013)
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D. Luebke, ‘Factions and communities in early modern Central Europe’, Central European History, 25 (1992)
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R. Mackay, The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile (1999) (ebook)
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V. Magagna, Communities of Grain: Rural Rebellion in Comparative Perspective (1991)
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S. Milner, "The Florentine Piazza della Signoria as Practiced Place", in Renaissance Florence: A Social History, ed. R.J. Crum and J.T. Paoletti (Cambridge, 2006), 83-103
- L. Nussdorfer, 'The Vacant See: Ritual and Protest in Early Modern Rome', The Sixteenth Century Journal 18/2 (1987)
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B. Poulsen, ‘ The necessity of state in early modern peasant society’, Scandinavian Jnl of History, 22 (1997)
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P. Roberts, ‘ Arson, conspiracy and rumour in early modern Europe’, Continuity and Change, 12 (1997)
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D. Sabean, Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany (1984)
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I.A.A. Thompson, ‘ Crown and Cortes in Castile 1590-1665’, Parliaments, Estates and Representation 2, no. 2 (June 1982), also with other key articles in his Crown and Cortes: Government, Institutions, and Representation in Early Modern Castile (1993), esp ch. 4
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F. De Vivo, Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics (Oxford, 2007)
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J. Walter, 'Confessional politics in pre-Civil War Essex', Historical Journal 44 (2001)
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J. Walter, Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England (2006) (ebook)
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P. Warde, ‘ Law, the “commune” and the distribution of resources in early modern German state formation’, Continuity and Change, 17 (2002)
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A. Würgler, ‘Voices from among the 'Silent Masses': Humble Petitions and Social Conflicts in Early Modern Central Europe’, International Review of Social History, 46 (2001), Supplement, 11-34
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P. Zagorin, Rebels and rulers 1500-1660, volume 1: Society, States and Early Modern Revolution: Agrarian and Urban Rebellions (1982) (ebook) See also Volume 2: Provincial Rebellion
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E-Resources
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External Websites
- Social History of Early Modern England (inc. sections on Riot and Rebellion and court records) - information and sources from Virtual Norfolk Online
- Earls Colne: Records of an English Village 1375-1854 - records and documents recording history of Earls Colne Village, Essex
- Leipzig (1556) - image of the town hall as site of urban politics
- Citizenship - exhibition about history of citizenship in Britain
- Early Stuart Libels - database containing early-17thC political poetry from manuscript sources
- Petitions by women during the English Civil Wars on National Archive pages: 'How did these conflicts affect their lives?'
- Dutch Revolt - sources, documents and bibliography relating to the Revolt of the Low Countries in the 16thC
- Renaissance and Early Modern Festival Books - digitised festival books from 1475-1700 from British Library Collection
