Historian and popular BBC TV presenter Ruth Goodman, author of How
to Be a Tudor, offers up a history of Renaissance Britain - the
offensive language, insulting gestures, insolent behaviour,
brawling and scandal of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -
with practical tips on just how to horrify the Tudor neighbours.
From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who
break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their
niggling, anti-social and irritating ways not only tell us about
what upset people, but also what mattered to them, how their
society functioned and what kind of world they lived in. In this
brilliantly nitty-gritty exploration of real life in the Tudor and
Stuart age, you will discover: - how to choose the perfect insult,
whether it be draggletail, varlet, flap, saucy fellow, strumpet,
ninny-hammer or stinkard - why quoting Shakespeare was very poor
form - the politics behind men kissing each other on the lips - why
flashing the inside of your hat could repulse someone - the best
way to mock accents, preachers, soldiers and pretty much everything
else besides Ruth Goodman draws upon advice books and manuals,
court cases and sermons, drama and imagery to outline bad behaviour
from the gauche to the galling, the subtle to the outrageous. It is
a celebration of drunkards, scolds, harridans and cross dressers in
a time when calling a man a fool could get someone killed, and
cursing wasn't just rude, it worked! 'Ruth is the queen of living
history - long may she reign!' Lucy Worsley
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