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Bloody Marsh: A Seventeenth-century Village in Crisis
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Product Description
Starting with a fight that lead to the murder of one man and the hanging of three others, Peter Warner reconstructs what life was like in a village in Suffolk in the English Civil War. He unravels a tale of crisis in social landscape - a story of rising poverty, enclosure, accusations of rape, and the brutal confrontation of the landed.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1107386 in Books
- Published on: 2000-09-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 146 pages
Customer Reviews
Fascinating background, but key incident still mysterious.
I really have no right to complain: Professor Warner makes the problems and limits he faces quite clear in his introduction, and the book provides fscinating details of 17th-century rural life in an economically declining community. Nevertheless, I finished the book and found myself longing to know more about the central event it describes, the killing of an agent of the lord of the local manor and the subsequent execution of three village men. We learn about the tensions and litigation surrounding the disputes over common land, but what is knowable about the bloody marsh "battle" remains minimal. Warner provides us with what there is to know, but at the end of the day, this isn't much. Both the victim and the killers remain shrouded in mystery, as do the circumstances of the actual confrontation. This is nonetheless an interesting study of local history. Splendid and copious photographs.
