A. McShane & G. Walker 
The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England [PDF ebook] 
Essays in Celebration of the Work of Bernard Capp

List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England; A.Mc Shane & G.Walker PART I: THE EXTRAORDINARY IN THE EVERYDAY Bodily Control and Social Unease: The Fart in Seventeenth-Century England; K.Thomas The Ambition of a Young Baronet: Sir Thomas Isham of Lamport, 1657¬–1681; A.Fletcher Robert Robertes and Little Cis: an Extraordinary Relationship; R.Houlbrouke Punishing Words: Insults and Injuries, 1525–1700; P.Griffiths The World of Poor Robin’s Intelligence: Comedy and Communication in Late Stuart London; D.M.Turner The Strangeness of the Familiar: Witchcraft and the Law in Early Modern England; G.Walker PART II: THE EVERYDAY IN THE EXTRAORDINARY Ann Jeffries and the Fairies: Folk Belief and the War on Scepticism in Later Stuart England; P.Marshall Wyclif’s Well: Lollardy, Landscape and Memory in Post-Reformation England; A.Walsham ‘Boiled and Stewed with Roots and Herbs’: Everyday Tales of Cannibalism in Early Modern Virginia; C.Armstrong Glimpses of the Obscure: the Witch Trials of the Channel Islands; D.Ogier The Extraordinary Case of the Blood-Drinking and Flesh-Eating Cavaliers; A.Mc Shane Mother Shipton and the Devil; D.Oldridge Bleedinge Afreshe’? The Affray and Murder at Nantwich, 19 December 1572; S.Hindle Publications by Professor Bernard Capp, FBA; T.Reinke-Williams Index

CATHERINE ARMSTRONG Lecturer in American History, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ANTHONY FLETCHER Professor Emeritus of Social History, the University of London, UK PAUL GRIFFITHS Assistant Professor of Early Modern English Social and Cultural History, Iowa State University, USA STEVE HINDLE Professor of History, the University of Warwick, UK RALPH HOULBROOKE former Professor of Early Modern History, the University of Reading, UK PETER MARSHALL Professor of History, the University of Warwick, UK ANGELA MCSHANE Tutor in Graduate Studies (1600-1800), the Victoria and Albert Museum/Royal College of Art, UK DARRYL OGIER States of Guernsey Archivist, UK DARREN OLDRIDGE Lecturer in History, the University of Worcester, UK TIM REINKE-WILLIAMS Lecturer in Economic and Social History, the University of Nottingham, UK KEITH THOMAS Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK DAVID M. TURNER Senior Lecturer in History, Swansea University, UK ALEXANDRA WALSHAM Professor of Reformation History, the University of Exeter, UK GARTHINE WALKER Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University, UK