Wood, Andy (2014) '‘Some banglyng about the customes’ : popular memory and the experience of defeat in a Sussex village, 1549–1640.', Rural history., 25 (1). pp. 1-14.
Abstract
This article deploys a body of remarkably detailed witness statements to interrogate the nature of popular memory and social conflict in Petworth, Sussex. These depositions are located in two specific contexts: a struggle between the tenants of Petworth and the ninth earl of Northumberland (1591 – 1608) and the broader pattern of resistance and negotiation in the village between the ‘commotion time’ of 1549 and the calling of the Short Parliament. The essay presents a micro-history of local struggles over land, rights and resources and the findings open up questions within the recent historiography of early modern social relations, undermining the notion that authority was flexibly negotiated between ruler and ruled. Instead, it locates negotiation within social structures that gave a powerful advantage to the gentry and nobility. In this respect, the essay builds upon the return in social history to questions of economic inequality and imbalances of political agency.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (296Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793313000174 |
| Publisher statement: | This article has been published in a revised form in Rural History https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793313000174. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Cambridge University Press 2014. |
| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 13 August 2018 |
| Date of first online publication: | 10 March 2014 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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