Looks at regionally distinctive practices of wedding traditions in Britain from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, in order to understand social networks, community attitudes, and local and regional identities.
Looks at regionally distinctive practices of wedding traditions in Britain from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, in order to understand social networks, community attitudes, and local and regional identities.
Robert Allan Houston was born in Hamilton, Scotland, lived in India and Ghana, and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and St Andrews University before spending six years at Cambridge University as a research student (Peterhouse) and research fellow (Clare College). He has worked at the University of St Andrews since 1983 and is Professor of Early Modern History, specialising in British social history. He is a fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland's national academy), and a member of the Academia Europaea. He is married to a university manager and lives in Edinburgh.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: Marriage and Recreation, Historians, and Social Scientists * PART I: ALES AND BRIDALS: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SOCIABILITIES * 1: Communal Drinkings in England and Wales, c.1400-1600 * 2: Religious Change and the Demise of English Church Ales * 3: Public and Private Festivities: The Geography of Church and Other Ales * PART II: WEDDING CELEBRATIONS IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN * 4: Weddings in South-East England * 5: Recreations, Religion, and Bridals in Post-Reformation Scotland * 6: Who Held Contributory Weddings and Why? * 7: The Costs and Benefits of Bridals * 8: Country, Town, and the Commercial Element in Hospitality * 9: The Social Universe of Contributory Weddings * 10: Numbers * PART III: COERCION AND THE LIMITS OF VOLUNTARISM * 11: Lovedargs, Boon Days, and Boon Works * 12: Thigging * 13: Cymorthau * PART IV: CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS * 14: Contempory Explanations of Cultural Change * 15: Regional Socio-Economic Contexts * 16: Cultural Patterns and the 'Celtic Fringe' * 17: Cultural Patterns and Continental Parallels * 18: The Decline of Reciprocity * Conclusion * Bibliography
* Introduction: Marriage and Recreation, Historians, and Social Scientists * PART I: ALES AND BRIDALS: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SOCIABILITIES * 1: Communal Drinkings in England and Wales, c.1400-1600 * 2: Religious Change and the Demise of English Church Ales * 3: Public and Private Festivities: The Geography of Church and Other Ales * PART II: WEDDING CELEBRATIONS IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN * 4: Weddings in South-East England * 5: Recreations, Religion, and Bridals in Post-Reformation Scotland * 6: Who Held Contributory Weddings and Why? * 7: The Costs and Benefits of Bridals * 8: Country, Town, and the Commercial Element in Hospitality * 9: The Social Universe of Contributory Weddings * 10: Numbers * PART III: COERCION AND THE LIMITS OF VOLUNTARISM * 11: Lovedargs, Boon Days, and Boon Works * 12: Thigging * 13: Cymorthau * PART IV: CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS * 14: Contempory Explanations of Cultural Change * 15: Regional Socio-Economic Contexts * 16: Cultural Patterns and the 'Celtic Fringe' * 17: Cultural Patterns and Continental Parallels * 18: The Decline of Reciprocity * Conclusion * Bibliography
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