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How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain
How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain | Ruth Goodman
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Historian and popular TV presenter Ruth Goodman offers up a history of offensive language, insulting gestures, insolent behaviour, brawling and scandal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - with practical tips on just how to horrify the neighbours. 'Ruth is the queen of living history - long may she reign!' Lucy Worsley From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, anti-social and irritating ways not only tell us about what upset people, but also what mattered to them, how their society functioned and what kind of world they lived in. In this brilliantly nitty-gritty exploration of real life in the Tudor and Stuart age, you will discover: - how to choose the perfect insult, whether it be draggletail, varlet, flap, saucy fellow, strumpet, ninny-hammer or stinkard - why quoting Shakespeare was very poor form - the politics behind men kissing each other on the lips - why flashing the inside of your hat could repulse someone - the best way to mock accents, preachers, soldiers and pretty much everything else besides Ruth Goodman draws upon advice books and manuals, court cases and sermons, drama and imagery to outline bad behaviour from the gauche to the galling, the subtle to the outrageous. It is a celebration of drunkards, scolds, harridans and cross dressers in a time when calling a man a fool could get someone killed, and cursing wasn't just rude, it worked!
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annamatopoetry
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Mehso-so

I think I like the specific topic more than Goodman's standard strategy of summarizing a whole period. But I've also read reputable researchers contradict some of the stuff she's saying here, and some of THAT could accounted for by writing about such a long time period (it says elizabethan but it's about the whole Tudor and Stuart eras). But not actively bad I guess.

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rachelsbrittain
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Kara would never.

BookmarkTavern Of course Kara would never! Look at that face! That is such an innocent face! 😇 4y
Oryx That face! 4y
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rachelsbrittain
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Reading snuggles are the best snuggles and the best reading

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Trying to take a cute picture and then *somebody* decides to take a quick taste of my library book as I learn about polite vs. impolite language in Elizabethan England 🙄

Tamra Fair game! 4y
NeedsMoreBooks How can you take a cute picture without your dog? 🥺 4y
HeyT I've had that same problem recently with my kitten. Every time I try to catch her with my current reads she tries to nom on the corners. I have to wait for her to sleep if I want her to “pose“ with my books. 4y
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rachelsbrittain @NeedsMoreBooks she was the one who was being cute--until she decided to eat my book 😂😂 (and even then she's still pretty cute dangit) 4y
rachelsbrittain @HeyT yeah it's problem 😅 4y
rachelsbrittain @Tamra well and obviously everything belongs to her anyway, so who am I to judge? 😂😂 4y
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Lunch + reading break

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1. How To Behave Badly in Elizabethan England, Infinity Son, Deathless Divide, and The Phantom Prince

2. Daisy Jones and the Six

3. I got a puppy!

#weekendreads

TheAromaofBooks !!! You should definitely post a puppy picture or two!!! 4y
Mitch Puppy 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 4y
wanderinglynn Yay! ❤️🐶 Definitely post a puppy photo. 4y
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readordierachel A puppy! That's exciting! 4y
thebluestocking Yay for puppy! She‘s adorable. 💙 4y
NeedsMoreBooks Puppy! ❤️🐶❤️🐶 4y
TheSpineView Love puppies! 💜🐾 4y
Mitch @rachelsbrittain Love that! 4y
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Traveler13
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This was fun in the most informative way😉