| Description |
325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The discovery of popular culture before printing / Fred E.H. Schroeder -- The discovery of popular culture before printing / Fred E.H. Schroeder -- An archaic recording system prior to writing / Denise Schmandt-Besserat -- In search of an Assyrian sense of humor / Wilson E. Strand -- Urbanism in the classical world: some general considerations and remarks / Ronald T. Marchese -- Images of physicians in classical times / Darrel W. Amundsen -- Possession, sex and hysteria: the growth of demonism in later antiquity / Gerald Erickson -- Greek and Roman witches: literary conventions to agrarian fertility priestesses? / Steve Oberhelman -- Roman domestic religion: the archaeology of Roman popular art / David Gerald Orr -- Popular literature in early Christianity: the apocryphal New Testament / Stephen Benko -- Some methodological reflections on the study of medieval popular religion / Pierre Boglioni -- Synchronic vs diachronic popular culture studies and the Old English elegy / Tim D.P. Lally -- Entertainment, edification, and popular education in the South English legendary / Klaus P. Jankofsky -- Gothic love and death: Francois Villon and the city of Paris / Joseph J. Hayes -- Social themes in urban broadsides of Renaissance England / Frederick O. Waage -- The role of the masses in shaping the Reformation / Peter J. Klassen -- Class, generation and social change: a case in Salem, Massachusetts, 1636-1656 / John Frye -- Cement lions and cloth elephants: popular arts of the Fante Asafo / Doran H. Ross -- Popular culture methodologies: a bibliographic afterword / Fred E.H. Schroeder. |
| Subject |
Civilization -- History.
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Civilization. |
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History. |
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Popular culture -- History.
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Popular culture. |
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Social history.
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Social history. |
| Added Author |
Schroeder, Fred E. H., 1932-
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| ISBN |
0879721472 |
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0879721480 (paperback) |
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