Popular Culture

Question 1

Describe urban culture and public displays of urban culture.

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Question 2

Describe rural culture.

Answer 2

Question 3

How does historian Peter Burke describe popular culture? What is wrong with this definition?

Answer 3

Question 4

Describe elite culture.

Answer 4

Question 5

Describe the elite’s participation in popular culture and their withdrawl from it.

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Question 6

What was the significance of ritual? What was the Church’s role in this?

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Question 7

What was the role of peageants and festivals?

Answer 7

Question 8

Describe the celebration of misrule.

Answer 8

Question 9

Describe public humiliation in this period.

Answer 9

Question 10

Describe humiliation that impacted women in this period.

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Question 11

Describe legal punishments in this period.

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Question 12

Describe moral regulation in this period.

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Question 13

Describe the role of magic in society, specifically the role of the church, the significance of supersition, the role of cunning folk and white magic and black magic.

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Question 14

Describe how religion challenged popular culture.

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Question 15

Describe how politics challenged popular culture.

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Question 16

Describe how economic and social change challenged popular culture.

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Question 17

Describe how the withdrawal of the elite challenged popular culture.

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