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ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION The AshgATe ReseARch comp Anion To popul AR cul TuRe in eARly modeRn e nglAnd ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION The Ashgate Research Companions are designed to offer scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The companions’ editors bring together a team of respected and experienced experts to write chapters on the key issues in their speciality, providing a comprehensive reference to the field. The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England Edited by AndRew hA dfield University of Sussex, UK mATThew dimmock University of Sussex, UK AbigAil shinn University of Leeds, UK © Andrew Hadfield, Matthew Dimmock and Abigail Shinn 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Andrew Hadfield, Matthew Dimmock and Abigail Shinn have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court East 110 Cherry Street Union Road Suite 3-1 Farnham Burlington, VT 05401-3818 Surrey, GU9 7PT USA England www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Ashgate research companion to popular culture in early modern England / edited by Andrew Hadfield, Matthew Dimmock and Abigail Shinn. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4094-3684-3 (hardcover) – ISBN 978-1-4094-3685-0 (ebook) – ISBN 978-1-4724-0578-4 (epub) 1. Popular culture–England–History–17th century. 2. England–Social life and customs–17th century. 3. Social classes–England–History– 17th century. 4. Literature and society–England–History–17th century. I. Hadfield, Andrew. II. Dimmock, Matthew. III. Shinn, Abigail. IV. Title: Research companion to popular culture in early modern England. DA380.A785 2014 306.094209'03–dc23 2013045830 ISBN 9781409436843 (hbk) ISBN 9781409436850 (ebk – PDF) ISBN 9781472405784 (ebk - ePUB) V Printed in the United Kingdom by Henry Ling Limited, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester, DT1 1HD contents List of Figures   vii Notes on Contributors   ix Acknowledgements   xiii Introduction: Thinking About Popular Culture In Early Modern England   1 Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield and Abigail Shinn PART I: KEY ISSUES 1 Recovering Speech Acts   13 Arnold Hunt 2 Youth Culture   31 Edel Lamb 3 Festivals   43 Tracey Hill 4 Popular Reading and Writing   59 Femke Molekamp 5 Visual Culture   75 Tara Hamling 6 Myth and Legend   103 Angus Vine 7 Religious Belief   119 Mike Rodman Jones PART II: EVER YDAY LIFE 8 Courtship, Sex and Marriage   133 Ian Frederick Moulton 9 Food and Drink   149 Phil Withington ASHgATe ReSeARCH CoMPANioN To PoPuLAR CuLTuRe iN eARLy MoDeRN eNgLAND 10 Work   163 Mark Netzloff 11 Gendered Labour   177 Helen Smith 12 Crime   193 Duncan Salkeld 13 Popular Xenophobia   207 Matthew Birchwood and Matthew Dimmock 14 Games   221 Joachim Frenk 15 Cultures of Mending   235 Abigail Shinn PART III: The exPeRIence of The WoRLd 16 Politics   253 Andrew Hadfield 17 Riot and Rebellion   267 elizabeth Sauer 18 Time   283 Neil Rhodes 19 Property   295 Ceri Sullivan 20 Popular Medicine   309 Margaret Healy 21 Superstition and Witchcraft   323 Simon Davies 22 Military Culture   337 Rory Rapple 23 London and Urban Popular Culture   357 Lawrence Manley index   373 vi list of figures 5.1 The dacre beasts, c. 1525. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.   80 5.2 purse, embroidered with heraldic shields, c. 1540. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.   82 5.3 plasterwork overmantel with the arms of Queen elizabeth i, formerly in 229 high street, exeter, now installed in st nicholas priory, exeter. Author’s photograph   84 5.4 View of the interior of ground-floor room in the ‘Old Merchants House’, Great Yarmouth Row Houses, Norfolk. © English Heritage.   85 5.5 Plasterwork overmantel, late sixteenth century, in first-floor room of ‘Harvard House’, Stratford-upon-Avon. Author’s photograph reproduced by kind permission of The shakespeare birthplace Trust.   86 5.6 Plasterwork overmantel formerly in 35 High Street in stratford-upon-Avon, now installed at packwood house, warwickshire. Author’s photograph reproduced with permission of National Trust Images.   87 5.7 Illustrations from Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory (1688), Book 1, Chapter 6, fol. 55 and Book 2, Chapter 1, fol. 2. These items are reproduced by permission of The huntington library, San Marino, California, RB 140916.   89 5.8 Henry Denham’s device and imprint (1582). © The British Library Board, E3:1(146) and Titlepage from John King, Lectures upon Jonas (1599). This item is reproduced by permission of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, RB 20866.   90 5.9 Allegorical designs. British Library, Stowe 309, ff. 1v-2. Accessible through the british library’s catalogue of illuminated manuscripts website: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts.   91 5.10 The Lenard Fireback, dated 1636. Anne of Cleves House Museum, lewes. Reproduced by kind permission of the sussex Archaeological Society, Barbican House.   93 5.11 Plasterwork overmantel with a scene of the Judgement of Solomon, Barrington Court, Somerset. © National Trust Images.   96 5.12 The Blewett family pew, All Saint’s Church, Holcombe Rogus, Devon. Author’s photograph.   97 5.13 Moses, Aaron and Hur during the battle against the Amalekites, detail of one of the biblical scenes depicted in the Blewett family pew, All Saint’s Church, Holcombe Rogus, Devon. Author’s photograph.   97 AshgATe ReseARch compAnion To p opuLAR cuLTuRe in eARLy modeRn engLAnd 5.14 Carved exterior of ‘Bishop Lloyd’s House’ in Chester. Author’s photograph.   98 5.15 Detail of carved exterior of ‘Bishop Lloyd’s House’, Chester. Author’s photograph.   99 11.1 Anon., A womans work is never done (London: for John Andrews, 1660?). BL Roxburghe 1.534–535. © The British Library Board.   178 11.2 The Wise and Foolish Virgins, carved alabaster chimneypiece in the great hall at Burton Agnes Hall, c. 1610. © The author.   180 11.3 Anon., cries of London, C17th. British Museum 1843, 0311.279. © Trustees of the British Museum.   188 11.4 After Marcellus Laroon II, ‘Buy any Wax or Wafers’, from The cryes of the city of London drawne after the Life (London: Pierce Tempest, 1688). British Museum 1972, U.370.11. © Trustees of the British Museum.   189 14.1 Pieter Breugel the Elder’s children’s games (1560). By permission of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.   222 15.1 John Taylor, The needles excellency (4th ed., London, 1640). © The British Library Board. C.31.h.30 (frontispiece).   236 viii notes on contributors Matthew Birchwood is senior lecturer in english literature at kingston university, london. his research interests lie in the role of islam and the east in the literary-political discourses of the seventeenth century. he is author of Staging Islam in England: Drama and Culture 1640–1685 (2007) and is currently working on a study of toleration and drama in the early enlightenment. Simon Davies recently completed a doctorate at the university of sussex and is currently finishing a monograph on the production and reception of the literature of witchcraft in early modern england. his research interests include witchcraft, the history of the book, the history of reading and seventeenth-century lyric poetry. Matthew Dimmock is professor of early modern studies at the university of sussex. His work focuses on the field of cultural encounter and amongst other publications he is author of New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England (2005) and Mythologies of Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture (2013) and editor of William Percy’s mahomet and his heaven: A Critical Edition (2006). Joachim Frenk is professor of british literary and cultural studies at the universität des saarlandes in germany. he is co-editor of the Jahrbuch of the deutsche shakespeare- gesellschaft, and has published, for example, on early modern authorship, shakespeare, Jonson, middleton and nashe. other research interests include nineteenth-century literature and culture and the cultural impact of James bond. his latest book is Textualised Objects: Material Culture in Early Modern English Literature (2012). Andrew Hadfield is professor of english at the university of sussex, Visiting professor at the university of granada and Vice-chair of the society for Renaissance studies. he is the author of a number of books on the literature and culture of early modern england including Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012), Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005) and Literature, Travel and Colonial Writing, 1540–1620 (1998). he is also the editor of the Oxford Handbook to Early Modern Prose, 1500–1640 (2013). Tara Hamling is senior lecturer in the history department, university of birmingham. her research focuses on the visual arts and material culture of early modern britain, especially in a domestic context. she is author of Decorating the Godly Household: Religious Art in Post-Reformation Britain (2010) and editor (with catherine Richardson) of Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture (2010) and (with Richard l. williams) Art Re-formed: Reassessing the Impact of the Reformation on the Visual Arts (2007). her next book, A Day at Home in Early Modern England: The Materiality of Domestic Life (co-authored with catherine Richardson) is forthcoming with yale university press.

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of current research on popular culture in the early modern era. For the first time a detailed yet wide-ranging consideration of the breadth and scope of early modern popular cu
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