The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England : Essays in Celebration of the Work of Bernard Capp

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.

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: The Fart in Seventeenth-Century England; K.Thomas The Ambition of a Young Baronet: Sir Thomas Isham of Lamport, 1657¬-1681; A.Fletcher Robert Robertes and Little Cis: an Extraordinary Relationship; R.Houlbrouke Punishing Words: Insults and Injuries, 1525-1700; 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 Modern Virginia; 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