The Memory of the People: Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England by Andy Wood

The Memory of the People: Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England

Andy Wood

412 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

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Did ordinary people in early modern England have any coherent sense of the past? Andy Wood's pioneering new book charts how popular memory generated a kind of usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources. He explores the gene...

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