Highly readable and entertaining, Ronald Hutton's acclaimed work is the first comprehensive account of the religious and secular rituals of late medieval and ea

This is a study of the social and cultural implications of the growth of governance in England in the century after 1550. It is principally concerned with the r

Comprehensive and engaging, this colourful study covers the whole sweep of ritual history from the earliest written records to the present day. From May Day rev

This volume includes papers on political, religious, social and economic history and the history of ideas during the 15th century. The papers challenge existing

A major interpretation of British history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.