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. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England....Pages 1-5 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 Bodily Control and Social Unease: The Fart in Seventeenth-Century England....Pages 9-30 The Ambition of a Young Baronet: Sir Thomas Isham of Lamport, 1657–1681....Pages 31-47 Robert Robertes and Little Cis: An Extraordinary Relationship....Pages 48-65 Punishing Words: Insults and Injuries, 1525–1700....Pages 66-85 The World of Poor Robin’s Intelligence: Comedy and Communication in Late Stuart London....Pages 86-104 The Strangeness of the Familiar: Witchcraft and the Law in Early Modern England....Pages 105-124 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Ann Jeffries and the Fairies: Folk Belief and the War on Scepticism in Later Stuart England....Pages 127-141 Wyclif’s Well: Lollardy, Landscape and Memory in Post-Reformation England....Pages 142-160 ‘Boiled and Stewed with Roots and Herbs’: Everyday Tales of Cannibalism in Early Modern Virginia....Pages 161-176 Glimpses of the Obscure: The Witch Trials of the Channel Islands....Pages 177-191 The Extraordinary Case of the Blood-Drinking and Flesh-Eating Cavaliers....Pages 192-210 Mother Shipton and the Devil....Pages 211-223 ‘Bleedinge Afreshe’? The Affray and Murder at Nantwich, 19 December 1572....Pages 224-245 Back Matter....Pages 246-254