Download or read book Before the Bawdy Court written by Paul.(ED) Hair and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Before the Bawdy Court written by Paul Edward Hedley Hair and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Selections from church court and other records relating to the correction of moral offences in England, Scotland, and New England, 1300-1800"--T.p.
Download or read book Before the Bawdy Court written by Paul Hair (Comp) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Bawdy Court of Stratford written by Edwin Robert Courtney Brinkworth and published by Chichester : Phillimore. This book was released on 1972 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New discoveries of the first importance about Shakespeare and his Stratford background have emerged from the first thorough examination of the Acts Books of the Ecclesiastical Court of Stratford. The finding of these 'long lost' original records among the Sackville MSS by the Kent Archives Office was first announced in an article by Hugh Hanley in The Time Literary Supplement of 21 May 1964. Since then Dr. Brinkworth has methodically analyzed the records to produce not myths, imaginings or far-fetched theories, but a mass of solid facts. Usually called 'The Bawdy Courts' because they were so occupied with sexual offences, the Church Courts in fact covered a wide area of the whole life. They were held regularly, everywhere, and everyone was answerable to them. The Stratford records throw a flood of light upon an aspect of Shakespeare's life hitherto unrealised and never before discussed. They show how intimately the courts were part and parcel of his mind and experience which, in turn, went into the making of his plays. Here also are new facts about many of Shakespeare's nearest relatives and friends and a host of contemporaries well known to him. Life in Shakespeare's Stratford is revealed in vivid detail and in all its naked reality. There is fresh evidence on Shakespeare's religion and on the circumstances of his death: evidence which calls for a critical look at long-established traditions. The book also contains a full precis, or Calendar, of the original records on which it is based. All the many parts of the original which are in England are given in full, retaining the contemporary spelling, and are of great interest as examples of the languages in use at Stratford in Shakespeare's lifetime. They convey the flavor of the age as nothing else can. Entirely new Shakespearian documents are thus made available in considerable detail, and together with the map, the facsimiles and the illustrations (including a little-known drawing of the now long-demolished New Place, home of Shakespeare in the last years of his life), make a work of permanent value." -Publisher.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts 1500 1860 written by R. B. Outhwaite and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of growth and then the slow disappearance of English law and social regulation.
Download or read book Bawdy City written by Katie M. Hemphill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centering the experiences of women, this vivid social history examines Baltimore's prostitution trade and its evolution throughout the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Church Court Records written by Anne Tarver and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first practical guide to understanding both Latin and English church court records.
Download or read book Carnal Knowledge written by Martin Ingram and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study, based on a wide range of church and secular court archives, explores sexual regulation in London and provincial England before, during and immediately after the Reformation.
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Bawdy Court of Stratford written by Brinkworth and published by Rowman & Littlefield Incorporated. This book was released on 1975-07-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of a Dwarf at the Sun King s Court written by Paul Weidner and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the over-scaled, decadent Versailles of Louis XIV, Memoirs of a Dwarf is the story of Hugues, an impoverished dwarf who maneuvers his way up into the very highest of court circles by clandestinely serving the needs of a mob of unscrupulous gamblers, of a priest notorious for saying black Masses at midnight, and--from under the gaming tables--of a number of sex-starved society women, including Louis's mistress. Along the way, Hugues finally discovers the truth of his own identity, a revelation which is a political bombshell and which subjects him to a grisly turn. The story combines historical events and characters--Louis, his mistresses, his outrageous brother Philippe, and many other baroque personalities--with fictitious ones. Hugues's tale reaches its climax during the famous affaire des poisons, the sexual and political scandal that thundered through the royal court and threatened wholesale destruction.
Download or read book City of Laughter written by Vic Gatrell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the satirical prints of the eighteenth century, the author explores what made Londoners laugh and offers insight into the origins of modern attitudes toward sex, celebrity, and ridicule.
Download or read book London s Sinful Secret written by Dan Cruickshank and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgian London evokes images of elegant mannered buildings, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife and houses of ill repute widespread in a sex trade that employed thousands. In London's Sinful Secret, Dan Cruickshank explores this erotic Georgian underworld and shows how it affected almost every aspect of life and culture in the city from the smart new streets that sprang up in Marylebone, to the squalid alleys around Charing Cross to the coffee houses, where prostitutes plied their trade, to the work of artists such as William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds. Cruickshank uses memoirs, newspaper accounts and court records to create a surprisingly bawdy portrait of London at its most-mannered and, for the first time, exposes its secret, sinful underside. "A lively work of social history, full of surprises and memorable characters." - Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Curmudgeons Drunkards and Outright Fools written by Thomas P. Lowry and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, a Union colonel was five times more likely to be court-martialed than a private. Worse, courts-martial of all ranks increased by 400 percent in the winter months. Among the court-martialed transgressors presented in this volume are an officer nicknamed ?Stumpy? because he tended to hide behind tree stumps during combat and a man tried for calling his superior a ?miserable reptile.? The gallery of offenders also includes a Vermont colonel who became a chloroform addict and a New York colonel who rode his horse into a barroom, ordered a brandy for himself and one for his horse, then fired his pistol through the ceiling. The stories of fifty misdeeds, along with a statistical exploration of twenty-two thousand other courts-martial, provide a pioneering study of the little-known world of Civil War misbehavior and clarify the often-bewildering dynamics between volunteer soldiers and their professional superiors.
Download or read book The Bawdy Court of Banbury written by Edwin Robert Courtney Brinkworth and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Rebecca Probert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a wide range of primary sources - legal, literary and demographic - to provide a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage. It disproves the widespread assumption that couples married simply by exchanging consent, demonstrating that such exchanges were regarded merely as contracts to marry and that marriage in church was almost universal outside London. It shows how the Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 was primarily intended to prevent clergymen operating out of London's Fleet prison from conducting marriages, and that it was successful in so doing. It also refutes the idea that the 1753 Act was harsh or strictly interpreted, illustrating the courts' pragmatic approach. Finally, it establishes that only a few non-Anglicans married according to their own rites before the Act; while afterwards most - save the exempted Quakers and Jews - similarly married in church. In short, eighteenth-century couples complied with whatever the law required for a valid marriage.
Download or read book Reading Shakespeare Historically written by Lisa Jardine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting ten years of critical development, these challenging, witty essays shed new light on Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how the culture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issues of today. Lisa Jardine re-reads Renaissance drama in its historical and cultural context, from laws of defamation in Othello to the competing loyalties of companionate marriage and male friendship in The Changeling. In doing so she reveals a wealth of new insights, sometimes surprising but always original and engrossing. At the same time, these essays also provide a fascinating account of the rise of feminist scholarship since the 1980s and the diversifying of `new historicist' approaches over the same period. Reading Shakespeare Historically will fascinate and provoke students of shakespeare and his historical age, and general readers with an urge to understand how the culture and history of our past illuminates the key scoial and political issues of today.
Download or read book The Courtiers written by Lucy Worsley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II . In the eighteenth century, this palace was a world of skulduggery, intrigue, politicking, etiquette, wigs, and beauty spots, where fans whistled open like switchblades and unusual people were kept as curiosities. Lucy Worsley's The Courtiers charts the trajectory of the fantastically quarrelsome Hanovers and the last great gasp of British court life. Structured around the paintings of courtiers and servants that line the walls of the King's Staircase of Kensington Palace-paintings you can see at the palace today-The Courtiers goes behind closed doors to meet a pushy young painter, a maid of honor with a secret marriage, a vice chamberlain with many vices, a bedchamber woman with a violent husband, two aging royal mistresses, and many more. The result is an indelible portrait of court life leading up to the famous reign of George III , and a feast for both Anglophiles and lovers of history and royalty.
