The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England
Garthine Walker, Angela McShane-Jones
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.
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Année:
2010
Editeur::
Palgrave Macmillan
Langue:
english
Pages:
267
ISBN 10:
0230537243
ISBN 13:
9780230537248
Fichier:
PDF, 1.27 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2010
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