How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain by Ruth Goodman

How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain

Ruth Goodman

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction historical history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 nei...

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