The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England

Chapter 2 Bodily Control and Social Unease: The Fart in Seventeenth-Century England

Chapter 3 The Ambition of a Young Baronet: Sir Thomas Isham of Lamport, 1657–1681

Chapter 4 Robert Robertes and Little Cis: An Extraordinary Relationship

Chapter 5 Punishing Words: Insults and Injuries, 1525–1700

Chapter 6 The World of Poor Robin’s Intelligence: Comedy and Communication in Late Stuart London

Chapter 7 The Strangeness of the Familiar: Witchcraft and the Law in Early Modern England

Chapter 8 Ann Jeffries and the Fairies: Folk Belief and the War on Scepticism in Later Stuart England

Chapter 9 Wyclif’s Well: Lollardy, Landscape and Memory in Post-Reformation England

Chapter 10 ‘Boiled and Stewed with Roots and Herbs’: Everyday Tales of Cannibalism in Early Modern Virginia

Chapter 11 Glimpses of the Obscure: The Witch Trials of the Channel Islands

Chapter 12 The Extraordinary Case of the Blood-Drinking and Flesh-Eating Cavaliers

Chapter 13 Mother Shipton and the Devil

Chapter 14 ‘Bleedinge Afreshe’? The Affray and Murder at Nantwich, 19 December 1572