Cultural creativity in the early English Renaissance Popular culture in town and country /

This book is about the ways that ordinary people in town and country creatively define themselves, their families and their social networks. It explores inheritance strategies, personal possessions, attitudes to commemoration after death, the daily fashioning of identity and the interactions between...

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Main Authors: Salter, Elisabeth
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230505209
Summary: This book is about the ways that ordinary people in town and country creatively define themselves, their families and their social networks. It explores inheritance strategies, personal possessions, attitudes to commemoration after death, the daily fashioning of identity and the interactions between imagination and daily life.
'Salter's strikingly original and intelligent new book explores how individuals in this period sought to articulate a sense of selfhood to themselves and others through a variety of textual and cultural transactions: to literally create themselves...The implications of this book are potentially wide-ranging, though it is likely to be of most value to social and cultural historians'. - Matthew Woodcock, Medium Aevum.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2006.
Carrier Form: 248 p.
ISBN: 9781403991799
9780230505209 :
0230505201 :
CLC: K01
Contents: Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Reconstructing Perception and Experience I: Evidence Reconstructing Perception and Experience II: Vocabularies Inheritance and Property Possessions Life Fashioning Death Fashioning The Creativity of Reading Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index.