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THE EXTRAORDINARY AND THE EVERYDAY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
ESSAYS IN CELEBRATION OF THE WORK OF BERNARD CAPP |
| By: |
Garthine Walker (Editor), Angela McShane (Editor) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£64.63 |
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| ISBN 10: |
023029393X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230293939 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
28 May, 2010 |
| Description: |
A fascinating collection of essays by renowned and emerging scholars exploring how everyday matters from farting to friendship reveal extraordinary aspects of early modern life, while seemingly exceptional acts and beliefs -- such as those of ghosts, prophecies, and cannibalism -- illuminate something of the routine experience of ordinary people. |
| Synopsis: |
This fascinating collection of essays written by renowned and emerging scholars of the early modern period explores the relationship between the extraordinary and the everyday to provide a greater understanding of and new insights into the mental and material worlds of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. By juxtaposing cases that struck early modern people as irregular or strange with things that they found perfectly usual, everyday matters such as household relationships, farting, drinking and exchanging insults are shown to reveal extraordinary aspects of early modern life, while seemingly exceptional events and beliefs -- such as those involving ghosts, prophecies, and cannibalism -- illuminate something of the routine experience of ordinary people. The contributions present not one worldview, nor adopt one way of approaching or illuminating the past. Rather, they demonstrate that categories such as the strange and the commonplace should be and were the subject of constant renegotiation, just as they are now. |
| Illustrations: |
2, 2 black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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