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recreations, reciprocity, and regions in Britain from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
This title looks at regionally distinctive practices of wedding traditions in Britain from the 16th to the 19th centuries, in order to understand social networks, community attitudes, and local and regional identities.
""Cover""; ""Bride Ales and Penny Weddings: Recreations, Reciprocity, and Regions in Britain from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Note on Currencies and Counties""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Marriage and Recreation, Historians and Social Scientists""; ""PART I: ALES AND BRIDALS: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SOCIABILITIES""; ""1: Communal Drinkings in England and Wales, c.1400â€?1600""; ""2: Religious Change and the Demise of English Church Ales""
3: Public and Private Festivities: The Geography of Church and Other AlesPART II: WEDDING CELEBRATIONS IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN -- 4: Weddings in South-East England -- 5: Recreations, Religion, and Bridals in Post-Reformation Scotland -- 6: Who Held Contributory Weddings and Why? -- 7: The Costs and Benefits of Bridals -- 8: Country, Town, and the Commercial Element in Hospitality -- 9: The Social Universe of Contributory Weddings -- 10: Numbers -- PART III: COERCION AND THE LIMITS OF VOLUNTARISM -- 11: Lovedargs, Boon Days, and Boon Works -- 12: Thigging
""13: Cymorthau""""PART IV: CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS""; ""14: Contemporary Explanations of Cultural Change""; ""15: Regional Social and Economic Contexts""; ""16: Cultural Patterns and the â€?Celtic Fringeâ€?""; ""17: Cultural Patterns and Continental Parallels""; ""18: The Decline of Reciprocity""; ""Conclusion""; ""Select Bibliography of Printed Primary Sources and Secondary Literature""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bride ales and penny weddings : recreations, reciprocity, and regions in Britain from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, ©2014