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The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England - Essays in Celebration of the Work of Bernard Capp (Hardcover)
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The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England - Essays in Celebration of the Work of Bernard Capp (Hardcover)
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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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