Community and Class: Theories of Local Politics in the English Revolution

The ‘Chalk’ and the ‘Cheese’: David Underdown, Regional Cultures and Popular Allegiance in the English Revolution

“…7 All were found wanting, but more promising were the micro-historical community studies of Margaret Spufford and the fundamental distinctions drawn by the economic historian Joan Thirsk between 'felden' or arable sheep-corn regions, and wood-pasture areas. 8 Agricultural and social historians had already pointed to contrasts in economic and social life based on these basic differences; Underdown suggested that they also contributed to cultural and political cleavages.…”

Politics and Religion, Community and Modernity: David Underdown in the Historiography of English Puritanism

“… See Underdown, Revel , Riot , and Rebellion , 21, 26, 47–63, 82–88, 106–145; “Community and Class,” 155–156, 158; Fire From Heaven , 90–129. This view of “political puritanism” in terms of a “reformation of manners” owed much to Keith Wrightson's early work.…”