David Cressy

Society and Culture in Early Modern England contains articles published over the last twenty-five years. The common theme of this selection is the linkage of elite and popular culture and the participation of ordinary people in the central events of their age. The collection also traces a development in historical style and method, from quantitative applications using statistics to qualitative telling of tales. Seven essays under the heading Opportunities explore problems of education, literacy and cultural attainment within the gendered and hierarchically ordered society of Elizabethan and Stuart England. Eight more under the