When Gossips Meet

Author : B. S. Capp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0199273197

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When Gossips Meet by B. S. Capp Pdf

This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England negotiated a patriarchal culture in which they were generally excluded, marginalized, or subordinated. It focuses on the networks of close friends ('gossips') which gave them a social identity beyond the narrowly domestic, providing both companionship and practical support in disputes with husbands and with neighbours of either sex. The book also examines the micropolitics of the household, with its internal alliances and feuds, and women's agency in neighbourhood politics, exercised by shaping local public opinion, exerting pressure on parish officials, and through the role of informal female juries. If women did not openly challenge male supremacy, they could often play a significant role in shaping their own lives and the life of the local community.

Author : B. S. Capp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:804694026

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When Gossips Meet by B. S. Capp Pdf

Author : Samuel Rowlands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1609
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101065547547

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Tis Merry when Gossips Meet by Samuel Rowlands Pdf

Author : Samuel Rowlands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1609
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z203831202

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Tis Merry when Gossips Meet. London, Pr. for John Daene, 1609 by Samuel Rowlands Pdf

Author : Samuel Rowlands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1609
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000006525774

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Tis Merry when Gossips Meet by Samuel Rowlands Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1675
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760869779

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Well met gossip by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Gushee O'Malley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 025207128X

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Custome is an Idiot by Susan Gushee O'Malley Pdf

Containing the complete and annotated texts of six pamphlets written between 1609 and 1620, "Custome Is an Idiot" makes an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on early modern British cultural history, specifically on competing opinions about the role of women in society. During the early seventeenth century a fierce debate raged in British intellectual society regarding the role of women, how much is ordained by God, and how much is merely custom. The pamphlets that circulated at the time reveal a great deal about the terms of the debate, and these six constitute a significant body of primary literature, allowing the contending voices to be heard anew. Included here are two pamphlets about gossips by Samuel Rowlands, William Heale's treatise against wife-beating, Christopher Newstead's argument for the superiority of women, and Hic Mulier and Haec Vir, two pamphlets that address the theme of cross-dressing. Introductions by Susan Gushee O'Malley place each pamphlet in a wider context, and detailed annotations shed light on the individual texts.

Author : Samuel Rowlands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:54151293

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Tis merry when gossips meet by Samuel Rowlands Pdf

Author : Matthew C. Mitchell
Publisher : CLC Publications
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781619580770

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Resisting Gossip by Matthew C. Mitchell Pdf

With gossip being so prevalent in our culture, it can be hard to resist listening to and sharing stories about other people's business. But what does God say about gossip? In Resisting Gossip, Pastor Matt Mitchell not only outlines the scriptural warnings against gossip, but also demonstrates how the truth of the gospel can deliver believers from this temptation.

Author : Robin Dunbar
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780571265183

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Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language by Robin Dunbar Pdf

Did mankind evolve unusually large brains simply in order to gossip? Primates differ from other animals by the intensity of their social relationships, by the amount of time they spend grooming one another. Not just a matter of hygiene, grooming is all about cementing bonds, making friends and influencing your fellow ape. Early humans, in their characteristic large groups of 150 or so, would have had to spend almost half their time in mutual grooming. Instead, Professor Robin Dunbar argues, they evolved a more efficient mechanism: language. It seems there is nothing idle about idle chatter. Having a good gossip ensures that a dynamic group - of hunter-gatherers, soldiers, workmates - remains cohesive.Men and women 'gossip' equally, but men tend to talk about themselves, while women talk more about other people, working to strengthen the female-female relationships that underpin both human and primate societies. Until now, most anthropologists have assumed that language developed in male-male relationships, during activities such as hunting. Dunbar's intriguing research suggests that, to the contrary, language evolved among women.

Author : Christina Luckyj,Niamh J. O'Leary
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496201997

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The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England by Christina Luckyj,Niamh J. O'Leary Pdf

Introduction -- The politics of women's "domestic" alliances. Distaff power: plebeian female alliances in early modern England / Bernard Capp -- Between women: slanderous speech and neighborly bonds in Henry Porter's The two angry women of Abington / Ronda Arab -- The political role of the gossip in Swetnam the woman-hater, arraigned by women / Megan Inbody -- Virtual and actual female alliance in The maid's tragedy and The tamer tamed / Niamh J. O'Leary -- Failed alliances and miserable marriages in Katherine Philips's letters / Elizabeth Hodgson -- Women's alliances and the politics of the court. Performing patronage, crafting alliances: ladies' lotteries in English pageantry / Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich -- Tyrants, love, and ladies' eyes: the politics of female-boy alliance on the Jacobean stage Roberta Barker -- Her advocate to the loudest: Arbella Stuart and female courtly alliance in The winter's tale / Alicia Tomasian -- Not sparing kings: Aemilia Lanyer and the religious politics of female alliance / Christina Luckyj -- The politics of female kinship. Shakespeare revises Juliet, the nurse, and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet / Steven Urkowitz -- Crossing generations: female alliances and dynastic power in Anne Clifford's great books of record / Jessica l. Malay -- Exilic inspiration and the captive life: the literary/political alliances of the Cavendish sisters / Jennifer Higginbotham -- Afterword / Susan Frye and Karen Robertson

Author : Kirilka Stavreva
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803286573

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Words Like Daggers by Kirilka Stavreva Pdf

Dramatic and documentary narratives about aggressive and garrulous women often cast such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority. Contending narratives, however, sometimes within the same texts, point to the effective subversion and undoing of the normative restrictions of social and gender hierarchies. Words Like Daggers explores the scolding invectives, malevolent curses, and ecstatic prophesies of early modern women as attested to in legal documents, letters, self-narratives, popular pamphlets, ballads, and dramas of the era. Examining the framing and performance of violent female speech between the 1590s and the 1660s, Kirilka Stavreva dismantles the myth of the silent and obedient women who allegedly populated early modern England. Blending gender theory with detailed historical analysis, Words Like Daggers asserts the power of women's language--the power to subvert binaries and destabilize social hierarchies, particularly those of gender--in the early modern era. In the process Stavreva reconstructs the speech acts of individual contentious women, such as the scold Janet Dalton, the witch Alice Samuel, and the Quaker Elizabeth Stirredge. Because the dramatic potential of women's powerful rhetorical performances was recognized not only by victims and witnesses of individual violent speech acts but also by theater professionals, Stavreva also focuses on how the stage, arguably the most influential cultural institution of the Renaissance, orchestrated and aestheticized women's fighting words and, in so doing, showcased and augmented their cultural significance.

Author : John Payne Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Early printed books
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJ9BL

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A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, Alphabetically Arranged by John Payne Collier Pdf

Author : Maria Nicolaou
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473837287

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Divorced, Beheaded, Sold by Maria Nicolaou Pdf

A fresh perspective on the seamy side of history. Maria Nicolaou has done considerable research into the largely unexplored area of divorce and marital separation from the Tudor period to the early Victorian era. Divorced, Beheaded, Sold is full of scandalous, little-known stories of wife sale, marital discord and audacious escapades of errant spouses, this is an interesting, as well as informative read in the same vein as Maureen Waller's The English Marriage and Kate Summerscale's Mrs Robinson's Disgrace. Maria Nicolaou reveals how people ended their marriages in the days before divorce was readily available from committing bigamy to selling a wife at market. Her book is full of colourful characters and warring spouses, like Con Philips, who fought off her husband with a gun filled with firework powder; the Duke of Grafton, who hired an army of detectives to spy on his wife and obtain proof of her adultery; and Marion Jones, who recruited a gang to take back her property from her husband.

Author : Iman Sheeha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000074512

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Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy by Iman Sheeha Pdf

Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern culture and as represented on the early modern stage. With its focus on the homes of the middling sorts, to whom the protagonists of domestic tragedy belong, the book expands our understanding of employer-servant relationships beyond elite and aristocratic circles, the focus of previous studies. Drawing on early modern advice literature, household guides, domestic manuals, sermons, treatises, proverbs, mothers’ legacies, funeral sermons, diaries, letters, and jest books as well as making use of the recent findings by social and cultural historians of early modern England, the book examines the consequences of disordered domesticity for the master-servant relationship. This study nuances the picture of domestic servants constructed by both early modern moralists and modern scholarship, arguing against overarching, reductive narratives. The book argues that the experience of household service as depicted in domestic tragedy, like in real life, was complex and varied and that there was no typical experience of service.