Faith, Place and People in Early Modern England by Trevor Dea... - 9781783272907

Faith, Place and People in Early Modern EnglandEssays in Honour of Margaret Spufford\nAuthor(s): Trevor Dean, Glyn Parry, Edward Vallance, Adrian Ailes, Catherine Ferguson, Christopher W. Marsh, Danae Tankard, David Cressy, Edward Vallance, Glyn Parry\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783272907, 978-1783272907\nSynopsis\nA collection that celebrates the research of Margaret Spufford, a \""game-changing\"" historian who shifted the focus away from the political and social elite in urban communities to the \""other 98%\"" in local and rural areas.\n\nThis collection celebrates and evaluates the seminal research of Margaret Spufford, a leading historian of early modern English social and economic history. Spufford played a crucial role in the broadening of English social and cultural history, shifting the focus away from the political and social elite in urban communities to the \""other 98%\"" in local and rural aE