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Afterword A Question of Morality
John Wharton’s 1578 attack on the wickedness of London is written in the swee** spirit of the Psalmist, who had seen
violence and strife in the city.
Day and night they go about...
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City Of Angels: Theatrical Vice and The Devil is an Ass
Vice in all its forms dominates Ben Jonson’s late comedy, The Devil is an Ass. The play opens with a minor devil, Pug, begging Satan for permission to travel to London with the morality Vice Iniquity, whom Satan ...
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Margaret Paston’s Calendar and Her Saints
This inquiry into Margaret Paston’s religious life begins by following her lead as she reaches out to the saints. That late medieval religion rested heavily on the cult of the saints is a proposition from which.....
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Manly Drunkenness: Binge Drinking as Disciplined Play
Shakespeare’s The Turning of the Shrew opens with what appears to be a straightforward condemnation of the vice of excessive alcohol consumption, as a lord, finding a drunken tinker passed out before an alehouse,...
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Family Wills: Margaret Paston and the Rest
A look at the last wills and testaments of the Paston family—with Margaret as our centerpiece—opens the window on many scenarios and agendas touching the world and worldview of the late medieval laity.1 Reading t...
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The Social Stakes of Gambling in Early Modern London
Simmel’s concept of “play” positions sociable behaviors such as gambling and flirting as abstract enactments of society’s “serious relationships.” Flirting, Simmel suggests, is a strictly formal, or “play” ver...
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“To What Bawdy House Doth Your Maister Belong?”: Barbers, Bawds, and Vice in the Early Modern London Barbershop
In early modern London, barbers—who represented only a small fraction of a multifarious array of health practitioners operating in and around the city by the beginning of the seventeenth century— competed in a...
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Vicious Objects: Staging False Wares
Although we tend to think of virtue and vice as attributes of subjects, rather than objects, in the context of early modern market regulation it was often things that were deemed virtuous or branded—and punish...
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Reading the Religious Life of Margaret Paston
This inquiry into lay or popular religion in the fifteenth century is a brief on behalf of Margaret Mautby Paston. If we wish to reconstruct the religious life of the late medieval English laity, whether female.....
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Introduction: Gendered Geographies of Vice
Scholars have detailed the vast and sprawling nature of late sixteenth-century London, which as the third largest city in all of Europe daily absorbed a steady influx of strangers from England and the Continent.1
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Margaret Paston in Context: Things Said, Done, and Owned
Saints and the moveable feasts of the Christian year seemed a good place to begin, guided as we are by Margaret Paston’s own choices on such matters. And yet noting saints’ days in the dating clause of her lett.....
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University of Vice: Drink, Gentility, and Masculinity in Oxford, Cambridge, and London
The early modern universities of Oxford and Cambridge might be imagined as hermetically sealed bastions of learning and piety, because of their historical role as training grounds for clergy. However, this pas...
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What Did Margaret See?
The Pastons are dead and gone. Though they eventually would rise well beyond the gentry-fueled aspirations of John I, the sands of time that were to grind down Mowbray and Bohun and Plantagenet would get to the.....
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Carnal Geographies: Mocking and Map** the Religious Body
Cathedrals map the loftiest human ambitions onto the urban landscape. St. Paul’s Cathedral embodied a wish to celebrate and communicate with the divine; its physical domination of London registered the strengt...
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Coriolanus and the “Rank-Scented Meinie”: Smelling Rank in Early Modern London
In “Dreaming of Infrastructures,” her introduction to the PMLA’s 2007 special issue on cities, Patricia Yaeger argues that it is time to redraw Raymond Williams’s influential map of urban and literary historie...
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