This article introduces the idea of ‘Wrightsonian incorporation’ in the later sixteenth century to a wider audience. A number of scholars have taken Wrightson's original idea, that village society split in the later sixteenth century as the ‘yeomen’ were incorporated into the state as officeholders, and elaborated upon it, particularly using it to explain why a late medieval tradition of rebellion should have ended in 1549. A number of reasons are offered as to why we should not readily accept the idea, but it is then shown how the public rhetoric of the period was deeply hostile to all forms of collective action, which it defined as rebellion. It is suggested that this context was as important as ‘incorporation’ in the sense that Wrightson and others have used it in changing the attitudes of the yeomen in the village by closing off options for political expression and activity.

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“莱特森公司”与中都铎时期英格兰的公共言论

本文向更广泛的读者介绍了 16 世纪后期“赖特森合并”的想法。许多学者采纳了赖特森最初的观点，即在 16 世纪后期，随着“自耕农”作为公职人员被并入国家，乡村社会分裂了，并对其进行了阐述，特别是用它来解释为什么中世纪晚期的反叛传统应该已于 1549 年结束。我们提供了许多理由说明为什么我们不应该轻易接受这个想法，但随后表明该时期的公共言论如何对所有形式的集体行动深表敌意，并将其定义为叛乱。