Challenges to popular culture and the causes of the decline Flashcards
What 2 events led to attitude changes?
The Reformation and Counter-Reformation
What did Protestant reformers attack?
Unruly aspects of popular culture
What did Protestants want?
A godly society
What did reformers attack?
Drunkenness, sexual promiscuity and rowdiness of carnivals and festivals
Who were less tolerant of popular culture?
Calvinists - replaced folk songs with psalms
Where and where were there physical attacks on festivals?
Scotland, 1570’s
What did Cromwell ban under the Protectorate?
Misrule and May day
Why was the ‘Feast of fools’ banned by Catholics?
Seen to mock ecclesiastical establishment and its practises
What caused authorities to crack down on things to inverted social order?
Centralisation of state authority
Why did government ally with the church?
To impose the culture of the elites
How much did the population increase by from 1500-1700?
Doubled to 160 million
What did population growth cause?
Towns and trade to grow, agriculture to improve, wealth circulated more
What happened by 1800?
The elite had fully withdrawn from PC
What caused the clergy to withdraw?
They were more educated and had less in common with peasants
Who did the elites influence?
The Middling
