Pop culture

• London population increased from 60,000 in 1500 to 1m in 1800
• Italian states population increased from 10.5m in 1500 to 13.3m in 1600
• San giovanni procession in florence
• Publication in Germany increase seven fold in 1518-24
• Acts of criminals in broadsheets in Bologna and Venice in 1530
• German weavers in santa spirito in florence
• Brughel's painting of carnival and lent in 1559
• The peasant wedding painting in 1566-9
• Soultry cakes made in Austria and flanders
• Serfs got holiday on holy day in east Europe
• Peter Burke called popilar culture the unofficial culture or culture of non-elites
• Elite culture ranged from royalty to minor nobles
• Court masque was festive courtly entertaining with dancing and singing
• Court masque stage and costume design by inigo jones
• The triumph of peace was a masque in 1634
• Catarina de medici's court festival gained nobles support by ordering each noble to host a ball at the chateau de fountainblue
• William Shakespeare performed king Lear to James 1 and Elizabeth 1 in 1606-7
• Italy has a public version of court masques called an intermedio
• Protestant reformers said saints day was pagan
• Reformation by Martin Luther began in 1517
• Counter reformation began in 1545
• Enlightenment began in 1685
• Elite didn't eat with their retainers in great hall anymore
• Baldassare castiglione's book of courtier
• Print revolution began in 1440
• Role of church in ritual is the liturgical year of roman Catholics
• The are paintings displaying mortality of church walls
• St Agatha's day in Spain, villagers of Cuenca give offerings and fast
• in Spanish province of guadalajora, the villagers of Usanos didn't pray to a saint so the church tower was struck by a thunderbolt which killed 3 people
• 17 festivals a year excluding saints days
• The guild funded the centrepiece of the festival celebration like a play or pageant
• Erasmus criticised the satire and pagan of carnival and wrote "praise of the folly" linking the festival to its roots in Ancient Rome
• Mayday lead to attacks on Catholic Church in London 1517 and Germany 1520-30
• Religious response to the festival of misrule was due to the reformation and counter reformation wish to crack down on profanity
• Secular response to the festival of misrule was the centralisation of state in France to crack down on it
• Female crimes were brought before the ecclesiastical courts And manorial courts
• Ecclesiastical courts are religious
• Secular courts are non religious
• Manorial courts are local controlled by lord
• The puritan reformers thought the cult of saints was pagan and idolatrous