The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of current research on popular culture in the early modern era. For the first time a detailed yet wide-ranging consideration of the breadth and scope of early modern popular culture in England is collected in one volume, highlighting the interplay of 'low' and 'high' modes of cultural production (while also questioning the validity of such terminology).

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Thinking About Popular Culture In Early Modern England - Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield and Abigail Shinn
• PART I: KEY ISSUES
• 1 Recovering Speech Acts - Arnold Hunt
• 2 Youth Culture - Edel Lamb
• 3 Festivals - Tracey Hill
• 4 Popular Reading and Writing - Femke Molekamp
• 5 Visual Culture - Tara Hamling
• 6 Myth and Legend - Angus Vine
• 7 Religious Belief - Mike Rodman Jones
• PART II: EVERYDAY LIFE
• 8 Courtship, Sex and Marriage - Ian Frederick Moulton
• 9 Food and Drink - Phil Withington
• 10 Work - Mark Netzloff
• 11 Gendered Labour - Helen Smith
• 12 Crime - Duncan Salkeld
• 13 Popular Xenophobia - Matthew Birchwood and Matthew Dimmock
• 14 Games - Joachim Frenk
• 15 Cultures of Mending - Abigail Shinn
• PART III: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE WORLD
• 16 Politics - Andrew Hadfield
• 17 Riot and Rebellion - Elizabeth Sauer
• 18 Time - Neil Rhodes
• 19 Property - Ceri Sullivan
• 20 Popular Medicine - Margaret Healy
• 21 Superstition and Witchcraft - Simon Davies
• 22 Military Culture - Rory Rapple
• 23 London and Urban Popular Culture - Lawrence Manley