The loss of Athelstan’s gift: the politics of popular memory in Malmesbury, 1607-1633

Wood, Andy

doi:10.7722/j.ctt31nh5b.14

The loss of Athelstan’s gift: the politics of popular memory in Malmesbury, 1607-1633

Wood, Andy

Authors

Professor Andrew Wood andrew.wood3@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Contributors

J. Whittle
Editor

Abstract

A century after its publication, R. H. Tawney’s The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century remains as imaginative, spirited and passionate as ever. For a long time, the book was neglected by early modern historians. The dismissal of The Agrarian Problem, often by those unacquainted with it, grew from Eric Kerridge’s denunciation of it in 1969. Adopting a school-masterly tone, Kerridge chided Tawney for spending too little time in the archives (‘Time which he might have given to studying history was devoted instead to the Fabian Society and the Labour Party’) and condemned The Agrarian Problem as mere socialist propaganda.²...

Citation

Wood, A. (2013). The loss of Athelstan’s gift: the politics of popular memory in Malmesbury, 1607-1633. In J. Whittle (Ed.), Landlords and tenants in Britain, 1440-1660 : Tawney’s Agrarian problem revisited (85-99). Boydell Press. https://doi.org/10.7722/j.ctt31nh5b.14

Publication Date	Aug 1, 2013
Deposit Date	Dec 4, 2012
Publisher	Boydell Press
Pages	85-99
Series Title	People, markets, goods : economies and societies in history
Book Title	Landlords and tenants in Britain, 1440-1660 : Tawney’s Agrarian problem revisited.
Chapter Number	5
ISBN	9781843838500
DOI	https://doi.org/10.7722/j.ctt31nh5b.14
Publisher URL	https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt31nh5b.14