Peter Burke: Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (1978)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, cultural history, modern europe, music history, popular culture
Long neglected by historians, the concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to bear on every aspect of history, and have transformed our understanding of the past.First published in 1978, this study examines the broad sweep of pre-industrial Europe’s popular culture. From the world of the professional entertainer to the songs, stories, rituals and plays of ordinary people, it shows how the attitudes and values of the otherwise inarticulate shaped – and were shaped by – the shifting social, religious and political conditions of European society between 1500 and 1800.
Publisher Harper & Row, 1978
ISBN 0-06-131928-7
366 pages