Rebellion, riot and popular unrest have been the theme of a succession of stimulating and influential articles in Past and Present. This selection shows how the various forms of popular protest in England from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries have been reinterpreted by modern scholars. Topics range from the great Tudor rebellions of 1536 and 1549 to the urban disorders in London and the food riots of the eighteenth century. Behind this variety, however, there were important continuities and similarities. Gathered in a single volume, the essays show how detailed studies of popular protest have transformed our knowledge of popular mentality and its relationship with social and economic change.
Introduction Paul Slack; 1. The Pilgrimage of Grace Reconsidered C. S. L. Davies; 2. Kett's Rebellion in Context Diarmaid MacCulloch; 3. Kett's Rebellion in Context: A Comment Julian Cornwall; 4. Kett's Rebellion in Context: A Rejoinder Diarmaid MacCulloch; 5. Youth and the English Reformation Susan Brigden; 6. Dearth and the Social Order in Early Modern England John Walter and Keith Wrightson; 7. The Popular Fear of Catholics during the English Revolution Robin Clifton; 8. The Chalk and the Cheese: Contrasts among the English Clubmen David Underdown; 9. Mutiny and Discontent in English Provincial Armies 1645-1647 J. S. Morrill; 10. English Youth Groups and The Pinder of Wakefield Bernard Capp; 11. The London Apprentices as Seventeenth-Century Adolescents Steven R. Smith; 12. The Sacheverell Riots: The Crowd and the Church in Early Eighteenth-Century London Geoffrey Holmes; 13. Popular Protest in Early Hanoverian London Nicholas Rogers; 14. Property, Ideology and Popular Culture in a Gloucestershire Village 1660-1740 David Rollison.
