Rhythms of Revolt: European Traditions and Memories of Social Conflict in Oral Culture

Regular price €62.99
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
Belfast News Letter
Bosom Friend
Brave Hearts
Breton Songs
Category=AV
Category=NHD
Category=NHTB
Charnwood Forest
collective memory Europe
David Hopkin
Donatien Laurent
Eamonn O Ciardha
Early Modern Revolts
early modern uprisings
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_music
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Erika Kuijpers
european traditions
folk song analysis
Georges Bischoff
Gerald Porter
Great Famine
Guy Beiner
Irish Jacobite
Irish Language Scholar
Jan Dumolyn
Jelle Haemers
Judith Pollmann
Kersti Lust
King William III
Malte Griesse
Marc H. Lerner
memories
Michel Nassiet
Middle Dutch
Nore Mutiny
oral history methods
Oral Traditional Genres
oral traditions in social conflict research
Peter Burke
Peter III
Philippe Joutard
Political Songs
popular memory
popular memory studies
Pugachev's Revolt
Pugachev's Uprising
Pugachev’s Revolt
Pugachev’s Uprising
revolution
Roy Palmer
social conflict
Southern Vosges
Swiss Confederation
United Irishmen
vernacular political narratives
Yaik Cossacks
Youenn Le Prat
Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367232061
  • Weight: 790g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Feb 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns

The culture of insurgents in early modern Europe was primarily an oral one; memories of social conflicts in the communities affected were passed on through oral forms such as songs and legends. This popular history continued to influence political choices and actions through and after the early modern period. The chapters in this book examine numerous examples from across Europe of how memories of revolt were perpetuated in oral cultures, and they analyse how traditions were used. From the German Peasants’ War of 1525 to the counter-revolutionary guerrillas of the 1790s, oral traditions can offer radically different interpretations of familiar events. This is a ‘history from below’, and a history from song, which challenges existing historiographies of early modern revolts.

Éva Guillorel is a lecturer in early modern history at the University of Caen Normandie. She studied history, ethnology, and Celtic languages at the universities of Rennes and Brest, and was awarded her doctorate in 2008. In 2012-13 she was a British Academy funded Newton Fellow, attached to the University of Oxford, and this book is one of the outcomes of that fellowship.  David Hopkin studied history at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College from 1997 to 1999 and lecturer, then senior lecturer, in the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, from 1999. He joined the University of Oxford and Hertford College in 2005. William G. Pooley is a lecturer in 19th/20th Century Western European History at the University of Bristol, having previously studied at the Universities of Oxford and Utah State.  His research focuses on the folklore collections of the long nineteenth century.