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The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725
There has been dispute amongst social historians about whether only the more prosperous in village society were involved in religious practice. A group of historians working under Dr. Spufford's direction have produced a factual solution to this dispute by examining the taxation records of large groups of dissenters and churchwardens, and have established that both late Lollard and post-Restoration dissenting belief crossed the whole taxable spectrum. We can no longer speak of religion as being the prerogative of either 'weavers and threshers' or, on the other hand, of village elites. The group also examined the idea that dissent descended in families, and concluded that this was not only tr...
Contrasting Communities
A study of three Cambridgeshire villages.
Small Books and Pleasant Histories
Dr Spufford's book examines the profits made by these publishers, the scale of their operations, and the way the 'small books' were distributed throughout the country. It also examines their content, and compares the English chapbooks with their French counterparts.
Celebration
Spufford tells the story of her daughter, who was born with a rare metabolic disease, and the story of her own struggle with chronic pain. An unflinching look at faith and prayer in the face of pain and physical evil.
Contrasting Communities
A detailed account of how communities developed, grew and declined during a period of intense religious and economic change. The book looks at three contrasting communities in eastern England from 1525 to 1700, dismissing the notion that, prior to the educational reforms of the 19th century, ordinary people did not think or debate. Margaret Spufford looks at the greatest single piece of evidence that the mass of common folk in the countryside did not live by bread alone - the fact that the parish church and sometimes the dissenting chapel are, with the manor house, the monuments that dominate the village layout. Far from being mere counters in a game of economic statistics, the people of the Cambridgeshire parishes who form the subject of the study emerge as three-dimensional human beings.
Great Reclothing of Rural England
Margaret Spufford has written as detailed an account of the lives and activities of the chapmen as there is likely to be, given the widely-spread and fragmented evidence. She shows where and when they were active, and in particular their rise in the 17th century, their ranks and their typical careers, the variety of the cloths and other wares they carried, and the attitude of authority towards them.
The Great Reclothing of Rural England
"Margaret Spufford has written as detailed an account of the lives and activities of the chapmen as there is likely to be, given the widely-spread and fragmented evidence. She shows where and when they were active, and in particular their rise in the 17th century, their ranks and their typical careers, the variety of the cloths and other wares they carried, and the attitude of authority towards them."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Celebration.
Margaret Spufford rightly rejects the superficial explanations of her own suffering. For her the central paradox of God's death, and our sharing in it through the Eucharist, is, in the most literal sense, crucial. She suggests that it is only through entering into that central mystery and living, and dying, within it, that pain begins to make any kind of sense.
Figures in the Landscape
Examining the peasants' reaction to the reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries, this volume looks at the changes in the church and considers the possibility of the lower classes founding dissenting churches.
Faith, Place and People in Early Modern England
A 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.
