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Download or read book A New Ballad of the Midwives Ghost written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sasha Handley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317315243
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Visions of an Unseen World written by Sasha Handley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the Enlightenment.
Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040233570
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Ghosts: A Social History, vol 1 written by Owen Davies and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts.
Author : Annelisa Christensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781999817398
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Ghost Midwife written by Annelisa Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, England. 1679. When a maid becomes the focus of ghostly events that alarm the servants of Rotten Row, she can't leave. There's no place to go. She must expose a murder most foul or bear the consequences... Page-turning ghost story based on a 17th century ballad.
Author : Vic Gammon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351569597
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600-1900 written by Vic Gammon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed book provides valuable insights into themes and genres in popular song in the period c. 1600-1900. In particular it is a study of popular ballads as they appeared on printed sheets and as they were recorded by folk song collectors. Vic Gammon displays his interest in the way song articulates aspects of popular mentality and he relates the discourse of the songs to social history. Gammon discusses the themes and narratives that run through genres of song material and how these are repeated and reworked through time. He argues that in spite of important social and economic changes, the period 1600-1850 had a significant cultural consistency and characteristic forms of popular musical and cultural expression. These only changed radically under the impact of industrialization and urbanization in the nineteenth century. The book will appeal to those interested in folk song, historical popular music (including church music), ballad literature, popular literature, popular culture, social history, anthropology and sociology.
Author : Peter Marshall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191579920
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Mother Leakey and the Bishop written by Peter Marshall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halloween 1636: sightings of the ghost of an old woman begin to be reported in the small English coastal town of Minehead, and a royal commission is sent to investigate. December 1640: a disgraced Protestant bishop is hanged in the Irish capital, Dublin, after being convicted of an 'unspeakable' crime. In this remarkable piece of historical detective work, Peter Marshall sets out to uncover the intriguing links between these two seemingly unconnected events. The result is a compelling tale of dark family secrets, of efforts to suppress them, and of the ways in which they finally come to light. It is also the story of a shocking seventeenth-century Church scandal which cast its shadow over religion and politics in Britain and Ireland for the best part of three centuries, drawing in a host of well known and not-so-well-known characters along the way, including Jonathan Swift, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Walter Scott. A fascinating story in its own right, Mother Leakey and the Bishop is also a sparkling demonstration of how the telling of stories is central to the way we remember the past, and can become part of the fabric of history itself.
Author : Vic Gammon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351569589
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book "Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600?900 " written by Vic Gammon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed book provides valuable insights into themes and genres in popular song in the period c. 1600-1900. In particular it is a study of popular ballads as they appeared on printed sheets and as they were recorded by folk song collectors. Vic Gammon displays his interest in the way song articulates aspects of popular mentality and he relates the discourse of the songs to social history. Gammon discusses the themes and narratives that run through genres of song material and how these are repeated and reworked through time. He argues that in spite of important social and economic changes, the period 1600-1850 had a significant cultural consistency and characteristic forms of popular musical and cultural expression. These only changed radically under the impact of industrialization and urbanization in the nineteenth century. The book will appeal to those interested in folk song, historical popular music (including church music), ballad literature, popular literature, popular culture, social history, anthropology and sociology.
Author : Erik R. Seeman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812251539
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Speaking with the Dead in Early America written by Erik R. Seeman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late medieval Catholicism, mourners employed an array of practices to maintain connection with the deceased—most crucially, the belief in purgatory, a middle place between heaven and hell where souls could be helped by the actions of the living. In the early sixteenth century, the Reformation abolished purgatory, as its leaders did not want attention to the dead diminishing people's devotion to God. But while the Reformation was supposed to end communication between the living and dead, it turns out the result was in fact more complicated than historians have realized. In the three centuries after the Reformation, Protestants imagined continuing relationships with the dead, and the desire for these relations came to form an important—and since neglected—aspect of Protestant belief and practice. In Speaking with the Dead in Early America, historian Erik R. Seeman undertakes a 300-year history of Protestant communication with the dead. Seeman chronicles the story of Protestants' relationships with the deceased from Elizabethan England to puritan New England and then on through the American Enlightenment into the middle of the nineteenth century with the explosion of interest in Spiritualism. He brings together a wide range of sources to uncover the beliefs and practices of both ordinary people, especially women, and religious leaders. This prodigious research reveals how sermons, elegies, and epitaphs portrayed the dead as speaking or being spoken to, how ghost stories and Gothic fiction depicted a permeable boundary between this world and the next, and how parlor songs and funeral hymns encouraged singers to imagine communication with the dead. Speaking with the Dead in Early America thus boldly reinterprets Protestantism as a religion in which the dead played a central role.
Author : Daisy Murray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317199634
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare written by Daisy Murray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship through new readings of plays, informed by discussions of twins appearing in such literature as anatomy tracts, midwifery manuals, monstrous birth broadsides, and chapbooks. The book contextualizes such dramatic representations of twinship, investigating contemporary discussions about twins in medical and popular literature and how such dialogues resonate with the twin characters appearing on the early modern stage. Garofalo demonstrates that, in this period, twin births were viewed as biologically aberrant and, because of this classification, authors frequently attempt to explain the phenomenon in ways which call into question the moral and constitutional standing of both the parents and the twins themselves. In line with current critical studies on pregnancy and the female body, discussions of twin births reveal a distrust of the mother and the processes surrounding twin conception; however, a corresponding suspicion of twins also emerges, which monstrous birth pamphlets exemplify. This book analyzes the representation of twins in early modern drama in light of this information, moving from tragedies through to comedies. This progression demonstrates how the dramatic potential inherent in the early modern understanding of twinship is capitalized on by playwrights, as negative ideas about twins can be seen transitioning into tragic and tragicomic depictions of twinship. However, by building toward a positive, comic representation of twins, the work additionally suggests an alternate interpretation of twinship in this period, which appreciates and celebrates twins because of their difference. The volume will be of interest to those studying Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in relation to the History of Emotions, the Body, and the Medical Humanities.
Author : Pepys Library
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859913331
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge written by Pepys Library and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1978 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second volume in two-volume catalogue of Pepys's outstanding collection of 17c ballads. The Pepys ballad collection is the largest surviving collection of English ballads printed in London in the seventeenth century, and is an outstanding source of English popular culture of the period. Pepys himself grouped the ballads into subjects, but a proper catalogue has long been needed by scholars, and this complex and difficult task has at last been completed. As a result, the full riches of the collection, already available in facsimile*, are now properly accessible. The second part of the catalogue consists of the indexes. Titles and sub-titles are indexed together, as these are often interchangeable. First lines and refrains provide text indexes; tunes and music are a guide to the musical element; and imprints, licensing information and authors enable the printing history to be reconstructed. The Pepys Ballads: Facsimile Vols. I-V 085991 256 6, 450.00/$190.00
Author : Gilly Pickup
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075249399X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The A-Z of Curious London written by Gilly Pickup and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spooky, gruesome, weird but true things about one of the world's greatest cities come alive in The A-Z of Curious London. Discover London's tiniest house, a 4,000-year-old mouse made from Nile clay, and have a giggle at things people leave on London's transport (including false teeth, a human skull and a park bench - yes, really.) Why did a dentist keep his dead wife on view in a shop window? Where did a shopkeeper murder 150 customers? Which Queen showed her bosom to an Ambassador? Why was a man arrested for wearing a top hat? In the City proper, why is no thoroughfare called a road? To sum up, eccentrics, legends, folklore, murders, scandals, ghosts, incredible characters and oodles of wow factor, it's all here.
Author : Pepys Library
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Pepys Ballads written by Pepys Library and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 1987 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Pepys Ballads: 1666-1688. Nos. 91-163 written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Freckleton Burrowes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Edwin's Ghost. A Ballad written by John Freckleton Burrowes and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellie Durant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780664705
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (647 download)
Download or read book New Walk written by Ellie Durant and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving debut novel about midwifery, marijuana and abortion.
Author : Elizabeth Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Altamira's Ghost ; Or, Justice Triumphant written by Elizabeth Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1744 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Gowing
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300142889
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Common Bodies written by Laura Gowing and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature, and detailed legal records from courts that were obsessively concerned with regulating morals, the book recaptures seventeenth-century popular understandings of sex and reproduction. This history of the female body is at once intimate and wide-ranging, with sometimes startling insights about the extent to which early modern women maintained, or forfeited, control over their own bodies. Laura Gowing explores the ways social and economic pressures of daily life shaped the lived experiences of bodies: the cost of having a child, the vulnerability of being a servant, the difficulty of prosecuting rape, the social ambiguities of widowhood. She explains how the female body was governed most of all by other women—wives and midwives. Gowing casts new light on beliefs and practices of the time concerning women’s bodies and provides an original perspective on the history of women and gender.
