David Cressy Explained

David Cressy is a British-born historian and Humanities Distinguished Professor of History, formerly at The Ohio State University. His specialty is the social history of early modern England, a topic on which he has published a number of monographs including Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England (Oxford UP, 1997)^[1] and England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 1640–1642 (Oxford UP, 2006).^[2]

Cressy's work Gypsies: An English History (Oxford UP, 2018) has been described as "an accessible book, which gives us a sympathetic narrative of a people who are very much part of the English story."^[3]

External links

• Cressy's homepage at OSU

https://davidcressy.com/

Notes and References

1. Jones. Norman . 1999 . Rev. of Cressy, Birth, Marriage, and Death . . 71 . 3 . 672–74 . 10.1086/235297.
2. Appleby . David J. . 2007 . Rev. of Cressy, England on Edge . . 46 . 1 . 175–77 . 10.1086/510945 . 10.1086/510945.
3. Jonathan Healey: "Pride and Prejudice on the Road". History Today Vol. 68/10, October 2018, pp. 104–105.