{"product_id":"the-memory-of-the-people-andy-wood-9780521720670","title":"The Memory of the People: Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England","description":"Did ordinary people in early modern England have any coherent sense of the past? Andy Wood's pioneering new book charts how popular memory generated a kind of usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources. He explores the genesis of customary law in the medieval period; the politics of popular memory; local identities and traditions; gender and custom; literacy, orality and memory; landscape, space and memory; and the legacy of this cultural world for later generations. Drawing from a wealth of sources ranging from legal proceedings and parochial writings to proverbs and estate papers, he shows how custom formed a body of ideas built up generation after generation from localized patterns of cooperation and conflict. This is a unique account of the intimate connection between landscape, place and identity and of how the poorer and middling sort felt about the world around them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andy Wood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521720672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521720670\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Andy Wood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119831675135,"sku":"9780521720670","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd2f8f78-ca65-4b57-94fa-c4f62e19be16.jpg?v=1687411160","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-memory-of-the-people-andy-wood-9780521720670","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}