Author: Arthur Valentine JudgesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Elizabethan Underworld
Author: Arthur Valentine JudgesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads
Author: A. V. JudgesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136483675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The Elizabethan Underworld collects together sixteen of the more important tracts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries dealing with the lives and misdoings of thieves, rogues, and tricksters. For the most part the original authors were men of experience - watchmen, constables and those who drifted into the London underworld and learnt its tricks. A thorough introduction contributes a full historical background and outlines contemporary social contexts.
The Elizabethan Underworld: a Collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads...
Author: Arthur Valentine JudgesPublisher:
ISBN: 9787240009772
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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The Elizabethan Underworld
Author: Arthur Valentine JudgesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Elizabethan Underworld
Author: The Elizabethan Underworld
Author: Arthur Valentine JudgesPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The Elizabethan Underworld
Author: The Elizabethan Underworld
Author: Robert CoplandState Formation in Early Modern England, C.1550-1700
Author: Michael J. BraddickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521789554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book examines the development of the English state during the long seventeenth century, emphasising the impersonal forces which shape the uses of political power, rather than the purposeful actions of individuals or groups. It is a study of state formation rather than of state building. The author's approach does not however rule out the possibility of discerning patterns in the development of the state, and a coherent account emerges which offers some alternative answers to relatively well-established questions. In particular, it is argued that the development of the state in this period was shaped in important ways by social interests - particularly those of class, gender and age. It is also argued that this period saw significant changes in the form and functioning of the state which were, in some sense, modernising. The book therefore offers a narrative of the development of the state in the aftermath of revisionism.
Lying in Early Modern English Culture
Author: Andrew HadfieldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192506595
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how religious, cultural, and social life would develop after the traumatic division of Christendom. While many saw the need for a secular power to define the truth others declared that their allegiances belonged elsewhere. Accordingly there was a constant battle between competing authorities for the right to declare what was the truth and so label opponents as liars. Issues of truth and lying were, therefore, a constant feature of everyday life and determined ideas of individual identity, politics, speech, sex, marriage, and social behaviour, as well as philosophy and religion. This book is a cultural history of truth and lying from the 1530s to the 1610s, showing how lying needs to be understood in action as well as in theory. Unlike most histories of lying, it concentrates on a series of particular events reading them in terms of academic theories and more popular notions of lying. The book covers a wide range of material such as the trials of Ann Boleyn and Thomas More, the divorce of Frances Howard, and the murder of Anthony James by Annis and George Dell; works of literature such as Othello, The Faerie Queene, A Mirror for Magistrates, and The Unfortunate Traveller; works of popular culture such as the herring pamphlet of 1597; and major writings by Castiglione, Montaigne, Erasmus, Luther, and Tyndale.