- Paperback: 658 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; New Ed edition (6 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198207883
- ISBN-13: 978-0198207887
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.7 x 3.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 878,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An impressive study. (Skiles Howard, Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol.51.No.2. )
an encyclopedic yet captivating compendium of life-cycle customs ... and their social, cultural, and religious history. (Skiles Howard, Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol.51.No.2. )
an invaluable research companion to Shakespeare studies. (Skiles Howard, Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol.51.No.2. )
His portrayal of life-cycle customs is cinematic in scope and style, a vista of elite protocols, secular traditions, and the contraversies surrounding them illuminated with a profusion of closely focused and vivid anecdotes from everyday life. (Skiles Howard, Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol.51.No.2. )
an extremely valuable work, erudite and enthralling. (Skiles Howard, Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol.51.No.2. )
so extensive and often so novel in itself that it opens a door on a lost world of experience, dispelling popular myths and removing areas of scholarly ignorance. (TLS )
detailed and absorbing book (The Observer )
David Cressy's detailed study examines how each elaborate rite of passage was shaped and altered by the wider events of the Reformation, the Commonwealth, and the Restoration. (History Today )
an encyclopedic yet captivating compendium of life-cycle customs ... and their social, cultural, and religious history. (Skiles Howard, Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol.51.No.2. )
an invaluable research companion to Shakespeare studies. (Skiles Howard, Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol.51.No.2. )
His portrayal of life-cycle customs is cinematic in scope and style, a vista of elite protocols, secular traditions, and the contraversies surrounding them illuminated with a profusion of closely focused and vivid anecdotes from everyday life. (Skiles Howard, Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol.51.No.2. )
an extremely valuable work, erudite and enthralling. (Skiles Howard, Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol.51.No.2. )
so extensive and often so novel in itself that it opens a door on a lost world of experience, dispelling popular myths and removing areas of scholarly ignorance. (TLS )
detailed and absorbing book (The Observer )
David Cressy's detailed study examines how each elaborate rite of passage was shaped and altered by the wider events of the Reformation, the Commonwealth, and the Restoration. (History Today )
Skiles Howard, Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol.51.No.2.
"an encyclopedic yet captivating compendium of life-cycle customs ... and their social, cultural, and religious history."
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Childbirth was a private event with public significance, a domestic occurrence of which the commonwealth took note. Read the first page
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I first saw this book when I visited the local library and I found it absolutely fascinating. Being a vicar and a re-enactor I learn so much about the period from this book. Don't just take my word for it, read it I'm sure that you will get a lot from it as well.
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Great book!
18 April 2000
Format:Paperback
Most historical books of this sort are amazingly dry; this one is not. Mr. Cressy has done a huge amount of research, and the text is peppered with primary source quotations. I now have a real feel for what these experiences were like in Tudor & Stuart England. I plan to buy whatever other material Mr. Cressy has written--I found him an easy, extremely informative read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A must read
8 July 2007
Format:Paperback
I actually had to read this for an MA class in history and it's definitely a textbook of the Tudor and Stuart time period but it wasn't as dry as I had expected it to be, thanks to Mr. Cressy's amazing writing ability. But it is thoroughly researched and offers up very important conclusions about the social life of the Tudor/Stuart period and anyone who wants the recent and best literature on the subject should read this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Social history at its best
2 Feb 2007
Format:Paperback
I've just finished writing a series of books about life in Elizabethan England, and this book was invaluable to me in my research. It is full of interesting details about how people in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England approached and experienced the major transition points of the life cycle. I would have read and enjoyed Birth, Marriage, and Death even if I had not needed it as a reference, and I would heartily recommend it to any reader who wants to get a feel for this time period.
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