Popular Culture(s) - Popular culture - or cultures?

3 important questions on Popular Culture(s) - Popular culture - or cultures?

How did north and south Europe differ in terms of culture?

In very broad terms we can distinguish between a Southern European culture, centred on the outdoor world of processions and parades, and with tight restrictions on women's freedom, and the more indoor, less exuberant culture of the north.

What is the difference between rural and urban culture?

  • We can also distinguish between rural and urban cultures (and between the rural cultures of mountainous or pastoral regions and those of the arable plains).
  • Urban culture developed its own character, focused on the guilds and associations of journeymen and apprentices.

Who are the 'middling sorts'? What differences was there among them?

  • Other historians have pointed to distinctive cultural traits found among the so-called 'middling sorts' - merchants, professional men and increasingly substantial farmers.
  • Such groups cannot easily be labelled either 'elite' or 'popular', neither can we simply place them at some point between the two.
  • The values of sobriety, moral rigour and hard work appealed more readily to the merchant or lawyer, than to the often quarrelsome and spendthrift nobility.

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