Bride ales and penny weddings : recreations, reciprocity, and regions in Britain from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century /

Some of the poorest regions of historic Britain had some of its most vibrant festivities. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the peoples of northern England, Lowland Scotland, and Wales used extensive celebrations at events such as marriage, along with reciprocal exchange of gifts, to e...

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Main Author: Houston, R. A (Robert Allan), 1954- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014
Edition:First edition
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505 0 0 |a note:  |g pt. I  |t ALES AND BRIDALS: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SOCIABILITIES --  |g 1  |t Communal Drinkings in England and Wales, c. 1400--1600 --  |g 2.  |t Religious Change and the Demise of English Church Ales --  |g 3.  |t Public and Private Festivities: the Geography of Church and Other Ales --  |g pt. II  |t WEDDING CELEBRATIONS IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN --  |g 4.  |t Weddings in South-East England --  |g 5.  |t Recreations, Religion, and Bridals in Post-Reformation Scotland --  |g 6.  |t Who Held Contributory Weddings and Why? --  |g 7.  |t Costs and Benefits of Bridals --  |g 8.  |t Country, Town, and the Commercial Element in Hospitality --  |g 9.  |t Social Universe of Contributory Weddings --  |g 10.  |t Numbers --  |g pt. III  |t COERCION AND THE LIMITS OF VOLUNTARISM --  |g 11.  |t Lovedargs, Boon Days, and Boon Works --  |g 12.  |t Thigging --  |g 13.  |t Cymorthau --  |g pt. IV  |t CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS --  |g 14.  |t Contemporary Explanations of Cultural Change --  |g 15.  |t Regional Social and Economic Contexts --  |g 16.  |t Cultural Patterns and the `Celtic Fringe' --  |g 17.  |t Cultural Patterns and Continental Parallels --  |g 18.  |t Decline of Reciprocity. 
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