The Insurrection, Sedition and Popular Political Culture in Tudor England: 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)

This is a major new study of the 1549 rebellions, the largest and most important risings in Tudor England. Based upon extensive new archival evidence, the book sheds fresh light on the causes, course and long-term consequences of the insurrections. Andy Wood focuses on key themes in the new social history of politics, concerning the end of medieval popular rebellion; the Reformation and popular politics; popular political language; early modern state formation; speech, silence and social relations; and social memory and the historical representation of the rebellions. He examines the long-term significance of the rebellions for the development of English society, arguing that the rebellions represent an important moment of discontinuity between the late medieval and the early modern periods. This compelling new history of Tudor politics from the bottom up will be essential reading for late medieval and early modern historians as well as early modern literary critics. Cover 1 Half-title 3 Series-title 4 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 9 Acknowledgements 10 Abbreviations 12 Preface 15 Introduction 23 I 1549: The last medieval popular rebellions 23 II Social conflict and the origins of capitalism in mid-Tudor England 33 Part I Context 41 1 The 1549 rebellions 43 I 'Commyns is become a king': legitimation crisis in mid-Tudor England 43 II Policy and ideology under the Duke of Somerset’s Protectorate 52 III The origins of the commotion time: the disturbances of 1548 and the Western rising of 1549 62 IV The commotion time 69 V Bondmen made free: the risings in East Anglia 77 2 ‘Precious bloody shedding’: repression and resistance, 1549–1553 92 I Cleansing the body politic 92 II Resistance and popular conspiracy, 1549–1553 99 III The intermingling of elite and popular politics: October 1549 and July 1553 105 Part II Political language 111 3 Speech, silence and the recovery of rebel voices 113 I Speaking for the commons in Tudor England 113 II Speech, silence and social relations in early modern England 130 III Speech acts, popular agency and social power 144 IV Social solidarities and speech communities 156 4 Rebel political language 165 I Of commonwealths and commotioners 165 II Ordering disorder: popular monarchism, and rebel attitudes to state formation 173 III The spirit of the camping time: disorder, rebel divisions and class conflict 186 IV The religious politics of the 1549 rebellions 199 Part III Consequences 207 5 The decline of insurrection in later sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England 209 I ‘Base excrements of the commonwealth’: social and cultural change in southern and eastern England 209 II State formation, office-holding and the law 217 III ‘Yf poore men rise and hold toguither’: changing patterns of social conflict in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries 224 6 Memory, myth and representation: the later meanings of the 1549 rebellions 230 I ‘When we were yonder eating of mutton’: immediate recollections of the 1549 rebellions 230 II ‘To see the thing in order’: imposing ideology on Kett’s rebellion 238 III ‘Rebels, in hell, with Satan’: propaganda, patriarchy and persuasion 243 IV ‘Soe many Cades and Ketts’: the invention of Kett’s rebellion 249 V ‘The more was an hawlter’: remembering rebellion in early modern England 263 VI Under another name: radicalism, socialism and the reinvention of Kett’s rebellion 279 Bibliography 287 Manuscript material 287 Bodleian Library, Oxford 287 British Library, London 287 Cambridge University Library 287 Cambridgeshire Record Office, Cambridge 287 College of Arms, London 287 Corporation of London Records Office, London 287 Essex Record Office, Chelmsford 287 Essex Record Office, Colchester 288 Hatfield House, Hertfordshire 288 Inner Temple Library, London 288 Longleat House, Wiltshire 288 National Archives, Public Record Office, London 288 Norfolk Heritage Centre, the Norwich Millennium Library 289 Norfolk Record Office, Norwich 289 Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk 289 Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 289 Contemporary printed books 290 Editions of manuscripts and contemporary printed works and calendars 290 Secondary works 294 Unpublished dissertations 305 Index 306 Cover......Page 1 Half-title......Page 3 Series-title......Page 4 Title......Page 5 Copyright......Page 6 Contents......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Abbreviations......Page 12 Preface......Page 15 I 1549: The last medieval popular rebellions......Page 23 II Social conflict and the origins of capitalism in mid-Tudor England......Page 33 Part I Context......Page 41 I 'Commyns is become a king': legitimation crisis in mid-Tudor England......Page 43 II Policy and ideology under the Duke of Somerset’s Protectorate......Page 52 III The origins of the commotion time: the disturbances of 1548 and the Western rising of 1549......Page 62 IV The commotion time......Page 69 V Bondmen made free: the risings in East Anglia......Page 77 I Cleansing the body politic......Page 92 II Resistance and popular conspiracy, 1549–1553......Page 99 III The intermingling of elite and popular politics: October 1549 and July 1553......Page 105 Part II Political language......Page 111 I Speaking for the commons in Tudor England......Page 113 II Speech, silence and social relations in early modern England......Page 130 III Speech acts, popular agency and social power......Page 144 IV Social solidarities and speech communities......Page 156 I Of commonwealths and commotioners......Page 165 II Ordering disorder: popular monarchism, and rebel attitudes to state formation......Page 173 III The spirit of the camping time: disorder, rebel divisions and class conflict......Page 186 IV The religious politics of the 1549 rebellions......Page 199 Part III Consequences......Page 207 I ‘Base excrements of the commonwealth’: social and cultural change in southern and eastern England......Page 209 II State formation, office-holding and the law......Page 217 III ‘Yf poore men rise and hold toguither’: changing patterns of social conflict in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries......Page 224 I ‘When we were yonder eating of mutton’: immediate recollections of the 1549 rebellions......Page 230 II ‘To see the thing in order’: imposing ideology on Kett’s rebellion......Page 238 III ‘Rebels, in hell, with Satan’: propaganda, patriarchy and persuasion......Page 243 IV ‘Soe many Cades and Ketts’: the invention of Kett’s rebellion......Page 249 V ‘The more was an hawlter’: remembering rebellion in early modern England......Page 263 VI Under another name: radicalism, socialism and the reinvention of Kett’s rebellion......Page 279 Essex Record Office, Chelmsford......Page 287 National Archives, Public Record Office, London......Page 288 Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge......Page 289 Editions of manuscripts and contemporary printed works and calendars......Page 290 Secondary works......Page 294 Unpublished dissertations......Page 305 Index......Page 306 "This is a major new study of the1549 rebellions, the largest and most important risings in Tudor England. Based upon extensive new archival evidence, the book sheds fresh light on the causes, course and long-term consequences of the insurrections. Andy Wood focuses on key themes in the new social history of politics, concerning the end of medieval popular rebellion; the Reformation and popular politics; popular political language; early modern state formation; speech, silence and social relations; and social memory and the historical representation of the rebellions. He examines the long-term significance of the rebellions for the development of English society, arguing that they represent an important moment of discontinuity between the late medieval and the early modern periods. This compelling new history of Tudor politics from the bottom up will be essential reading for late medieval and early modern historians as well as early modern literary critics. Andy Wood is Professor of Social History at the School of History, University of East Anglia."--Jacket

This is a major study of the 1549 rebellions, the largest and most important risings in Tudor England. Based upon extensive archival evidence, the book sheds fresh light on the causes, course and long-term consequences of the insurrections. Andy Wood focuses on key themes in the social history of politics, concerning the end of medieval popular rebellion; the Reformation and popular politics; popular political language; early modern state formation; speech, silence and social relations; and social memory and the historical representation of the rebellions. He examines the long-term significance of the rebellions for the development of English society, arguing that the rebellions represent an important moment of discontinuity between the late medieval and the early modern periods. This compelling history of Tudor politics from the bottom up will be essential reading for late medieval and early modern historians as well as early modern literary critics.

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