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History of civilization --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1600-1699 --- Catholics --- Catholic women --- English literature --- Public opinion --- History --- History and criticism --- Catholic Church --- Controversial literature --- England --- Church history --- Catholics - England - History - 17th century --- Catholic women - England - History - 17th century --- English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- Catholics - England - Public opinion - History - 17th century --- Public opinion - England - History - 17th century --- England - Church history - 17th century
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Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or mother. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why. Frances E. Dolan examines stories ranging from the profoundly disturbing to the comically macabre: of husband murder, wife murder, infanticide, and witchcraft. She surveys trial transcripts, confessions, and scaffold speeches, as well as pamphlets, ballads, popular plays based on notorious crimes, and such well-known works as The Tempest, Othello, Macbeth, and The Winter's Tale. Citing contemporary analogies between the politics of household and commonwealth, she shows how both legal and literary narratives attempt to restore the order threatened by insubordinate dependents.
Crime --- History --- History of the law --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Great Britain --- City crime --- Crime and criminals --- Crimes --- Delinquency --- Felonies --- Misdemeanors --- Urban crime --- Social problems --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Criminology --- Transgression (Ethics) --- Social aspects --- England --- Social conditions
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A detailed study of seventeenth century farming practices and their relevance for today. We are today grappling with the consequences of disastrous changes in our farming and food systems. While the problems we face have reached a crisis point, their roots are deep. Even in the seventeenth century, Frances E. Dolan contends, some writers and thinkers voiced their reservations, both moral and environmental, about a philosophy of improvement that rationalized massive changes in land use, farming methods, and food production. Despite these reservations, the seventeenth century was a watershed in the formation of practices that would lead toward the industrialization of agriculture. But it was also a period of robust and inventive experimentation in what we now think of as alternative agriculture. This book approaches the seventeenth century, in its failed proposals and successful ventures, as a resource for imagining the future of agriculture in fruitful ways. It invites both specialists and non-specialists to see and appreciate the period from the ground up. Building on and connecting histories of food and work, literary criticism of the pastoral and georgic, histories of elite and vernacular science, and histories of reading and writing practices, among other areas of inquiry, Digging the Past offers fine-grained case studies of projects heralded as innovations both in the seventeenth century and in our own time: composting and soil amendment, local food, natural wine, and hedgerows. Dolan analyzes the stories seventeenth-century writers told one another in letters, diaries, and notebooks, in huge botanical catalogs and flimsy pamphlets, in plays, poems, and how-to guides, in adages and epics. She digs deeply to assess precisely how and with what effect key terms, figurations, and stories galvanized early modern imaginations and reappear, often unrecognized, on the websites and in the tour scripts of farms and vineyards today.
Agriculture. Animal husbandry. Hunting. Fishery --- anno 1600-1699 --- England --- Agricultural innovations --- Agricultural innovations. --- Agriculture in literature. --- Agriculture --- Agriculture. --- English literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Pastoral literature, English --- Pastoral literature, English. --- History --- Early modern. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- 1500-1700. --- England.
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Sociology of law --- Drama --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699
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History --- Reading --- Truth --- Methodology --- Social aspects --- Social aspects --- Great Britain --- History --- Historiography.
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In the seventeenth century, the largely Protestant nation of England was preoccupied with its Catholic subjects. They inspired more prolific and harsher criticism and more elaborate attempts at legal regulation than did any other minority group. To understand this phenomenon, Frances E. Dolan probes the verbal and visual representations of Catholics and Catholicism and the uses to which these were put during three crises in Protestant'Catholic relations: the gunpowder plot (1605), Queen Henrietta Maria's open advocacy of Catholicism in the 1630s and 1640s, and the popish and meal tub plots (1678-1680). She uses each crisis as a jumping-off point, an opportunity for speculation, as did contemporary writers. Drawing on political, religious, and legal writings and offering fresh readings of literary texts such as Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra, Dolan shows how often Catholics and Catholicism were linked to disorderly women.Dolan maintains that since Catholics were members of many English families and communities and prominent at court, the threat they offered was precisely that they could not be readily isolated and assigned to a category-both laws and polemic struggled to identify Catholics, but never succeeded in establishing a clear line between Catholics and everyone else. In seventeenth-century England, Dolan says, the threat of Catholicism lay in the tension between the foreign and the familiar, the different and the same.
Gender Studies. --- Media Studies. --- Catholic Church --- Controversial literature --- History and criticism. --- England --- Church history
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Abused wives --- Equality --- Marital violence --- Marriage --- Marriage --- Marriage --- Marriage --- Sex discrimination against women --- Sex role --- History --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History --- History --- History --- History --- History
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