How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain - Softcover

Goodman, Ruth

 
9781789292664: How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1789292662 ISBN 13: 9781789292664
Verlag: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 2020

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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
– 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ruth Goodman is a social historian and has presented a number of BBC series, including Victorian Farm, Wartime Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm and, most recently, Full Steam Ahead. She is also a regular expert presenter on The One Show. As well as the books accompanying her many series, she has written the critically acclaimed How to be a Victorian and How to be a Tudor and The Domestic Revolution. Ruth will be available for PR.

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Verlag
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1789292662
ISBN 13 
9781789292664
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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