Gypsies Av David (george Iii Professor Of British History And Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus George Iii Professor Of British History And

Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and¿more recently¿Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? Can they even be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all?Gypsies have frequently been vilified, and not much less frequently romanticized, by the settled population over the centuries. Social historian David Cressy now attempts to disentangle the myth from the reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of English history. In this, the first comprehensive historical study of the doings and dealings of Gypsies in England, he draws on original archival research, and a wide range of reading, to trace the many moments when Gypsy lives becameentangled with those of villagers and townsfolk, religious and secular authorities, and social and moral reformers.Crucially,

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