A fascinating collection of essays by renowned and emerging scholars exploring how everyday matters from farting to friendship reveal extraordinary aspectsof early modern life, while seemingly exceptional acts and beliefs b such as those of ghosts, prophecies, and cannibalism b illuminate something of the routine experience of ordinary people. INDICE: List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England; A.McShane & G.Walker PART I: THE EXTRAORDINARY IN THE EVERYDAY Bodily Control and Social Unease: TheFart in Seventeenth-Century England; K.Thomas The Ambition of a Young Baronet: Sir Thomas Isham of Lamport, 1657¬b 1681; A.Fletcher Robert Robertes and Little Cis: an Extraordinary Relationship; R.Houlbrouke Punishing Words: Insults and Injuries, 1525b 1700; P.Griffiths The World of Poor Robin's Intelligence: Comedy and Communication in Late Stuart London; D.M.Turner The Strangeness of the Familiar: Witchcraft and the Law in Early Modern England; G.Walker PART II: THE EVERYDAY IN THE EXTRAORDINARY Ann Jeffries and the Fairies: Folk Belief and the War on Scepticism in Later Stuart England; P.Marshall Wyclif's Well: Lollardy, Landscape and Memory in Post-Reformation England; A.Walsham 'Boiled and Stewed with Roots and Herbs': Everyday Tales of Cannibalism in Early ModernVirginia; C.Armstrong Glimpses of the Obscure: the Witch Trials of the Channel Islands; D.Ogier The Extraordinary Case of the Blood-Drinking and Flesh-Eating Cavaliers; A.McShane Mother Shipton and the Devil; D.Oldridge Bleedinge Afreshe'? The Affray and Murder at Nantwich, 19 December 1572; S.Hindle Publications by Professor Bernard Capp, FBA; T.Reinke-Williams Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-53724-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 18/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés