THE ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION TO POPULAR CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

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'The authors examine how popular culture impacted upon people's everyday lives during the period, helping to define how individuals and groups experienced the world. Issues as disparate as popular reading cultures, games, food and drink, time, textiles, religious belief and superstition, and the function of festivals and rituals are discussed' (publishers blurb).