| Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Subjects: Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; History; Religion; Cultural Studies; Military & Strategic Studies; British Politics; European Politics; Political Theory; Sociology & Social Policy; Government; British History; European History; Medieval History 400-1500; Early Modern History 1500-1750; Modern History 1750-1945; Religious History; Social & Cultural History; Political History; Christianity; Religious History; Religion in Context; Protest Movements; Revolution - Government; Political Sociology; Race & Ethnicity; This book, first published in 1987, looks at the culture of the masses and at the political language and actions of the crowd. It examines the enduring traits of a European demotic culture that was largely non-literate, and it then goes on to show how the political outlook of the lower classes arose from the moral attitudes contained in their culture, a culture that was deeply suffused by Christianity. Unlike upper-class culture, popular culture is resistant to change and has to be studied over a long period - in this case the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Because its themes - popular social values, riot and revolt - are pervasive over both time and space, the book's geographical coverage is extensive, taking in most of western and central Europe. Michael Mullett |