Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Contributors
1. Introduction - Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf
2. Language, Literacy and Aspects of Identity in Early Modern Wales - Richard Suggett and Eryn White
3. The Pulpit and the Pen: Clergy, Literacy and Oral Tradition in the Scottish Highlands - Donald Meek
4. Speaking of History: Conversations about the Past in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England - Daniel Woolf
5. Vagabonds and Minstrels in Sixteenth-Century Wales - Richard Suggett
6. Reformed Folklore? Cautionary Tales and Oral Tradition in Early Modern England - Alexandra Walsham
7. The Genealogical Histories of Gaelic Scotland - Martin MacGregor
8. Constructing Oral Tradition: The Origin of the Concept in Enlightenment Intellectual Culture - Nicholas Hudson
9. 'Things Said or Sung a Thousand Times': Customary Society and Oral Culture in Rural England 1700-1900 - Bob Bushaway

About the Author

Adam Fox is Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh. Daniel Woolf is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada