Bride ales and penny weddings : recreations, reciprocity, and regions in Britain from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries / R. A. Houston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houston, R. A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Royal weddings--Great Britain.

Royal weddings.

Marriage customs and rites--Great Britain--History.

Marriage customs and rites.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title looks at regionally distinctive practices of wedding traditions in Britain from the 16th to the 19th centuries, in order to understand social networks, community attitudes, and local and regional identities.

Contents:

Cover; Bride Ales and Penny Weddings: Recreations, Reciprocity, and Regions in Britain from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Note on Currencies and Counties; Preface; Introduction: Marriage and Recreation, Historians and Social Scientists; PART I: ALES AND BRIDALS: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SOCIABILITIES; 1: Communal Drinkings in England and Wales, c.1400-1600; 2: Religious Change and the Demise of English Church Ales; 3: Public and Private Festivities: The Geography of Church and Other Ales

PART II: WEDDING CELEBRATIONS IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN4: Weddings in South-East England; 5: Recreations, Religion, and Bridals in Post-Reformation Scotland; 6: Who Held Contributory Weddings and Why?; 7: The Costs and Benefits of Bridals; 8: Country, Town, and the Commercial Element in Hospitality; 9: The Social Universe of Contributory Weddings; 10: Numbers; PART III: COERCION AND THE LIMITS OF VOLUNTARISM; 11: Lovedargs, Boon Days, and Boon Works; 12: Thigging; 13: Cymorthau; PART IV: CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS; 14: Contemporary Explanations of Cultural Change

15: Regional Social and Economic Contexts16: Cultural Patterns and the 'Celtic Fringe'; 17: Cultural Patterns and Continental Parallels; 18: The Decline of Reciprocity; Conclusion; Select Bibliography of Printed Primary Sources and Secondary Literature; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-150241-3

OCLC:

922972915