The People and Politics

Discussion topics

What were the 'points of contact' between rulers and ruled in the sixteenth century?
'The people had no role to play in politics.' Discuss.
Which norms and values do we find in elite / popular politics?

Documents

**NOTE: Some eresources are accessible only on-campus or via off-campus proxies or the athens service**

Texts	[Interpret]	Images	[Interpret]
·The 'Twelve Articles' of the German Peasants (1525) ·Kett's Rebellion and 'The Proclamation at Norwich' (1549) from Virtual Norfolk ·Contemporary ballad: Londons praise, or, the glory of the city. For more English ballads see the Bodleian library collection (try browsing by year, e.g. 1650) ·Act for repressing of riots and punishment of vagabonds ·The Duchess of Orleans, Versailles Etiquette (1704) ·Penalties for seditious words ·Festival book, Journey of Margaret of Austria through Italy to marry Philip III (1598) ·Festival book, Entries of Charles IX and Elisabeth into Paris (1571) ·Festival book, The Marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria (1625)		·Joris Hoefnagel, Map of Amersfoort, Netherlands (1588) ·Map of the Old Swiss Confederation ·Death warrant for Charles I ·William Hogarth, The Idle Prentice executed at Tyburn (1747) ·Robert Kett's Oak, where the rebels gathered in 1549 ·Town hall and civic procession in Augsburg (by Joerg Breu, c. 1525)

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

A. Black, ‘Communal democracy and its history’, Political Studies 45 (1997)
P. Blickle (ed.), Resistance, Representation and Community (1998)
W. te Brake, Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics (1998)
S. Cohn (ed.), Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe (2005) [Primary sources]
J. Fortea Pérez, ‘The Cortes of Castile and Philip II’s fiscal policy’, PER 11 (1991)
C. Friedrichs, The Early Modern City (1995)
M. Graves, The Parliaments of Early Modern Europe (2001)
T. Harris (ed.), The Politics of the Excluded (2002)
R. Head, Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons (1995)
M.R. Hunt, The middling sort:commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780 (1996)
J.R. Kent, 'The centre and the localities: state formation and parish government in England c. 1640-1740', HJ 38 (1995)
B. Kümin & A. Würgler, ‘Petitions, gravamina and the early modern state’, PER (1997)
C. Larquie, ‘Popular Uprisings in Spain in the Mid-Seventeenth Century’, Renaissance and Modern Studies, 26 (1982)
D. Luebke, ‘Factions and communities in early modern Central Europe’, Central European History, 25 (1992)
R. Mackay, The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile (1999)
V. Magagna, Communities of Grain: Rural Rebellion in Comparative Perspective (1991)
M. Mullett, Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1987)
B. Poulsen, ‘The necessity of state in early modern peasant society’, Scandinavian Jnl of History, 22 (1997)
P. Roberts, ‘Arson, conspiracy and rumour in early modern Europe’, Continuity and Change, 12 (1997)
D. Sabean, Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany (1984)
J.C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985)
I.A.A. Thompson, ‘Crown and Cortes in Castile 1590-1665’, PER 2.ii (June 1982), also with other key articles in his Crown and Cortes (1993), esp ch. 4
J. Walter, 'Confessional politics in pre-Civil War Essex', HJ 44 (2001)
P. Warde, ‘Law, the “commune” and the distribution of resources in early modern German state formation’, Continuity and Change, 17 (2002)
A. Wood, Riot, rebellion and popular politics in early modern England (2002)
A. Würgler, ‘Humble Petitions and Social Conflicts in Early Modern Central Europe’, International Review of Social History, 46 (2001), Supplement, 11-34
P. Zagorin, Rebels and rulers 1500-1660 (1982)
F. De Vivo, Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics (Oxford, 2007).
D. Bellingradt, "The Early Modern City as a Resonating Box: Media, Public Opinion, and the Urban Space of the Holy Roman Empire, Cologne, and Hamburg ca. 1700", Journal of Early Modern History, 16:3 (2012): 201-240.
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