The Common People

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This book is about the people who are usually left out of the men and women who have labored to make a living in a world they did not create; whose work has sustained the wealthy, ruling minority that is normally the subject of history books. J.F.C. Harrison uses the evidence of the common people themselves and draws upon recent work in crowd history, popular religion, cultural change, demography, and the history of women and the family to describe the everyday life of ordinary their social structure, work, family relationships, ideas idly recreates the past as it felt to peasants working in the fields, artisans in their workshops, and industrial workers in the factories; and it enables us to trace the history of the English common people from the present back to earliest times.