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Title:

The extraordinary and the everyday in early modern England : essays in celebration of the work of Bernard Capp / edited by Angela McShane, Garthine Walker.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xi, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

England--Social life and customs--17th century.
England--Social life and customs--16th century.
Popular culture--England--History--17th century.
Popular culture--England--History--16th century.
England--Social conditions--17th century.
England--Social conditions--16th century.
Curiosities and wonders--England--History--17th century.
Curiosities and wonders--England--History--16th century.
England--Civilization--17th century.
England--Civilization--16th century.
Alltäglichkeit.
Seltsamkeit.
Volkskultur.
England.
Geschichte 1500-1700.

Other Authors:

McShane, Angela, 1959-
Walker, Garthine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-250) and index.

Contents:

6. The strangness of the familiar : witchcraft and the law in early modern England / 1. Bodily control and social unease : the fast in seventeenth century England / Garthine Walker. 2. The ambition of a young Baronet : Sir Thomas Isham of Lamport, 1657-1681 / Anthony Fletcher -- 3. Robert Robertes and Little Cis : an extraordinary relationship / Ralph Houlbrooke -- 4. Punishing words : insults and injuries, 1525-1700 / Paul Griffiths -- 5. The world of Poor Robin's intelligence : comedy and communication in late Stuart London / David M. Turner -- 6. The strangness of the familiar : witchcraft and the law in early modern England / Garthine Walker.
13. Publications by Professor Bernard Capp / 7. Ann Jeffries and the fairies : folk belief and the war on scepticism in later Stuart England / compiled by Tim Reinke-Williams. 8. Wyclif's Well : Lollardy, landscape and memory in post-Reformation England / Alexandra Walsham -- 9. 'Boilded and stewed with roots and herbs' : everyday tales of cannibalism in early modern Virginia / Catherine Armstrong -- 10. Glimpses of the obscure : the Witch Trials of the Channel Islands / Darryl Ogier -- 11. The extraordinary case of the blood-drinking and flesh-eating cavaliers / Angela McShane -- 12. Mother Shipton an the Devil / Darren Oldridge -- 13. 'Bleeding afreshe'? : the affray and murder at Nantwich, 19 December 1572 / Steve Hindle -- Publications by Professor Bernard Capp / compiled by Tim Reinke-Williams.

ISBN:

9781816042507
1816042501
0230537243 (hardback)
9780230537248 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)506248750

LCCN:

2010004784

Locations:

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)