Ruth Goodman - How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain (Book signing available) Fri 26th July 11.00am
Beneath the much vaunted gloss of ruffs and shimmering silks, the deeply committed religious reformers, the political visionaries and great literary figures of the years between 1550 and 1660 lurks the rest of humanity and human experience in all its grubby glory and tarnished glister. Sixteenth and seventeenth century England was a place of vitality, experimentation, expanding horizons and lots of small minded, petty, badly mannered, irritating and irreverent oiks, guls, gallants and harridans. And I love them all. A history of bad language, insulting gestures, brawling, and scandal. People’s anti – social and irritating ways reveal what mattered to them, how society functioned and the kind of world they lived in.
Ruth Goodman is a social and domestic historian working in television (presenting and consulting on several highly successful prime-time television series), also in theatre, film, museums and educational establishments. She is an international bestselling author with How to be a Tudor and also How to be a Victorian and most recently How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain and The Domestic Revolution – How the Introduction of Coal into our Victorian Homes Changed Everything.
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Beneath the much vaunted gloss of ruffs and shimmering silks, the deeply committed religious reformers, the political visionaries and great literary figures of the years between 1550 and 1660 lurks the rest of humanity and human experience in all its grubby glory and tarnished glister. Sixteenth and seventeenth century England was a place of vitality, experimentation, expanding horizons and lots of small minded, petty, badly mannered, irritating and irreverent oiks, guls, gallants and harridans. And I love them all. A history of bad language, insulting gestures, brawling, and scandal. People’s anti – social and irritating ways reveal what mattered to them, how society functioned and the kind of world they lived in.
Ruth Goodman is a social and domestic historian working in television (presenting and consulting on several highly successful prime-time television series), also in theatre, film, museums and educational establishments. She is an international bestselling author with How to be a Tudor and also How to be a Victorian and most recently How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain and The Domestic Revolution – How the Introduction of Coal into our Victorian Homes Changed Everything.
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