He is the author of The Local Origins of Modern Society: Gloucestershire 1500–1800 (1992).Ī Commonwealth of the People Popular Politics and England’s Long Social Revolution, 1066–1649 David RollisonĬambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: © David Rollison 2009 This publication is in copyright. is an independent scholar and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney. This panoramic synthesis of political, intellectual, social, cultural, religious, economic, literary and linguistic movements offers a ‘new constitutional history’ in which state institutions and power elites were subordinate and answerable to a greater community that the early modern English called ‘commonweal/th’ and we call ‘society’. The keyword of this long revolution, ‘commonweal/th’, has been largely invisible in traditional constitutional history. A succession of crises from the Norman Conquest to the English Revolution were causal links and chains of collective memory in a unique, vernacular, populist movement. David Rollison argues that the ‘English explosion’ was the outcome of a long social revolution with roots deep in the medieval past. This book asks how and why a small island people became the nucleus of an empire ‘on which the sun never set’. In 1500 fewer than three million people spoke English today English speakers number at least a billion worldwide.
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