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Popular rejoicing and public ritual in Norwich and Coventry, 1660-c1835

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Kilmartin, James G. (1987) Popular rejoicing and public ritual in Norwich and Coventry, 1660-c1835. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This thesis is about popular rejoicing and public ritual in Norwich and Coventry from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the Reform of the Municipal Corporations in 1835. It is distinctive in at least two ways; first in its attention to the local context, and second in its examination of public festivity as a separate, but not an isolated, cultural form. Previous studies of the subject have generally looked at rejoicing and ritual as but one strand of a larger, fairly amorphous, popular culture and done so on a national or even a continental level.

The study is divided into three parts. The first is largely descriptive; an account of the festive events, whether on the annual holiday calendar or not, which took place in Norwich and Coventry at or about 1750. This not only sets the scene for the analysis which follows, it also indicates the extent to which rejoicing and ritual was subject to social, political and economic change. That this was so will become clear in the second part of this study which identifies the three major developments to affect the conduct of and attitudes to public festivity at Norwich and Coventry in this period; commercialisation, political change and the divergence of polite and plebeian cultures. The extent to which the impact of these developments varied between the two cities is also explored in this section, as it is in part three of the thesis which is made of two case studies, one of the Norwich Guild and the other of the Coventry Show Fair. The very different form and fortune of these two events will be seen to confirm the importance of studying rejoicing and ritual in relation to the most immediate context in which it was performed.

Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GT Manners and customs
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Ritual -- England -- Coventry -- History, Ritual -- England -- Norwich -- History, Festivals -- England -- Coventry -- History, Festivals -- England -- Norwich -- History, Coventry (England) -- History, Norwich (England) -- History
Official Date: July 1987
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July 1987Submitted
Institution: University of Warwick
Theses Department: Department of Social History
Thesis Type: PhD
Publication Status: Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: Mason, Tony, 1938- ; Obelkevich, Jim
Sponsors: University of Warwick ; Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain)
Format of File: pdf
Extent: iii, 379 leaves : illustrations, maps, facsimiles
Language: eng

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