Overview

Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe examines pre-industrial everyday life across the continent between 1500 and 1800. The study ranges from professional entertainers to the songs, stories and plays of ordinary people, tracing how popular beliefs and practices intersected with shifting social, religious and political conditions.

Using diverse case studies, the book highlights performance, communal ritual, oral and printed traditions, and the informal networks through which attitudes and values circulated. The approach emphasizes the cultural forms that shaped community identity and responses to change.

Features:

• Coverage of entertainers, popular drama, songs and narrative traditions
• Analysis of social, religious and political influences
• Designed for students and readers of cultural and social history

Ashgate Publishing, 2009 · Paperback · 456 pages · ISBN-13: 9780754665076

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