- Paperback: 378 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (15 Feb 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 019285447X
- ISBN-13: 978-0192854476
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,479,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Hutton has written a scholarly text that convinces and delights through his masterly deployment of illustrative detail."--Observer
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Highly readable and entertaining, Ronald Hutton's acclaimed work is the first comprehensive account of the religious and secular rituals of late medieval and early modern England.
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NOBODY has hitherto attempted to provide a systematic portrait of English seasonal rituals and pastimes in the hall-century before the Reformation. Read the first page
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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Ronald Hutton's second book in his 'series' on faith and belief through the ages in the British Isles is probably the one which is least read. this is a pity, for in many ways it is the most important book for understanding all that came afterwards. His period of study is the crucial period of the 'waning of the middle ages' and the birth of the early modern state - from the mid-15th century to the mid-18th century. In his study it becomes clear that the high middle ages is separated from us by a unbridgeable chasm -- that of the Reformation. And what is perhaps surprising is that it was not so much under Henry VIII that the break really took place, but under those who held power under his son, Edward VI. Even the restoration of Catholicism under Mary Tudor could not restore much of what had been lost. A restoration that in the case of Mary was cut short by her own death and her sister, Elizabeth's ,succession -- which confirmed the Protestant ascendancy in England. All of this Hutton explains and documents with reference to the changing nature of church practices and festivals. Reading his work, one is struck again and again by the profound sense of cultural loss. England, in the view of the a Protestant Englishman of, say 1580, may have been a 'godlier' place than it had been a hundred years earlier, but it seems to have been in many ways a culturally poorer place.
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Professor Hutton's book on the changing pattern of communal celebrations in early modern England is a very good work. The research seems to be very thorough,with a range of sources that have not before been employed in such a comprehensive manner with regard to this subject. The examinations of the interplay between 'elite' celebrations and those of the populace, and the apparent use of celebrations as means of protest against royal policy are particularly interesting. A particularly valuable aspect of the approach of this book is the use of a longer term perspective, so that the patterns of behaviour and the changes in these patterns over the early modern period are set in a broader context, and in doing so deficiencies in certain aspects of broadly accepted concepts such as the 'reformation of maaners' become apparent. Professor Hutton's style makes the subject come alive while managing to convey the subtleties of variation in peoples attitudes and actions over the period covered. This book forms part of project concerning the 'riual year' and I look forward to reading the other volumes published by Ronald Hutton on this subject.
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