HIS422H1: Early Modern English Popular Culture, 1500-1800

24S

Deals with issues of orality, literacy, gender, class, cultural bricolage and vernacular epistemology – the constituents of popular, as opposed to elite knowledge - through the study of folklore, magic, religion, drink, sex, riot and festivity in early modern England. Some background in medieval and/or early modern history or literature is highly recommended. Extensive work will be undertaken with primary printed sources.

HIS496H1 (Topics in History: Early Modern English Popular Culture, 1600-1800), offered in Summer 2018
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