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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cressy, David (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Gypsies [Texte imprimé] : an English history / David Cressy
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018
Description matérielle : xv, 411 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-396) and index
"Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and--more recently--Travellers. Who are this marginal
and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are tales
of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many
myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? In fact, can they even
be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all, or are they little more than a
useful concept? Gypsies have frequently been vilified, and not much less frequently
romanticized, by the settled population over the centuries, but social historian David
Cressy now attempts to disentangle the myth from the reality of Gypsy life over more
than half a millennium of English history. In this, the first comprehensive historical
study of the doings and dealings of Gypsies in England, from their first appearance
in early Tudor times to the present, he draws on original archival research, and a
wide range of reading, to trace the many moments when Gypsy lives became entangled
with those of villagers and townsfolk, religious and secular authorities, and social
and moral reformers. Crucially, it is a story not just of the Gypsy community and
its peculiarities, but also of England's treatment of that community, from draconian
Elizabethan statutes, through various degrees of toleration and fascination, right
up to the tabloid newspaper campaigns against Gypsy and Traveller encampments of more
recent years."--Publisher description
Sujet(s) : Tsiganes -- Angleterre (GB) -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
942 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Angleterre
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198768133. - ISBN 9780198768135
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45529941p
Notice n° :
FRBNF45529941
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : European wanderers: origins, arrivals, and proscriptions ; The rambling roguey gypsies
of the early modern page ; Tudor gypsies against the law ; Gypsies and counterfeits
in Elizabethan England ; Gypsies in Stuart England ; The trials and travels of eighteenth-century
gypsies ; Reformers and enthusiasts in the early nineteenth century ; Victorian
encounters ; Travels and troubles in modern Britain ; Lives and livelihoods.
