Cultural creativity in the early English Renaissance :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
popular culture in town and country /
First Statement of Responsibility
Elisabeth Salter.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 231 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-224) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Reconstructing perception and experience I : evidence -- Reconstructing perception and experience II : vocabularies -- Inheritance and property -- Possessions -- Life-fashioning -- Death-fashioning -- The creativity of reading.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"This book is about the ways that ordinary people in town and country creatively define themselves, their families and their social networks. It explores, for the period c. 1450-1560, inheritance strategies, personal possessions and their meanings, attitudes to commemoration after death, the daily fashioning of identity and the interactions between imagination and daily life. The book is also about how the surviving textual evidence may be used to reconstruct these perceptions and experiences and the implications of such reconstruction for cultural history in the current crises of interpretation. Above all, this book emphasizes the cultural significance of the creative imagination."--Jacket.