Howleglas (Classic Reprint)

Howleglas (Classic Reprint)

Author: Frederic Ouvry

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781332217731

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Excerpt from Howleglas The great rarity of the early English translation of Eulenspiegel has induced me to reprint a few copies of it. But three copies are known to exist, each being of a different impression, and each being more or less imperfect. The copies do not differ in any material respect; the variations being merely in the spelling, and in the correction of misprints. They are all in small quarto and in black letter. Two of the copies are in the British Museum. One, which belongs to the Garrick collection, wants sheet D and the upper right-hand corner of M I. The colophon of this copy is - Imprynted at London in Tames strete at the Vintre on the thre Craned Wharfe by William Copland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Disability and the Tudors

Disability and the Tudors

Author: Phillipa Vincent Connolly

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Published: 2021-11-10

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1526720078

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Throughout history, how society treated its disabled and infirm can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any impairment, disease or frailty was often a matter of life and death before the advent of modern medicine, so how did a society support the disabled amongst them? For centuries, disabled people and their history have been overlooked - hidden in plain sight. Very little on the infirm and mentally ill was written down during the renaissance period. The Tudor period is no exception and presents a complex, unparalleled story. The sixteenth century was far from exemplary in the treatment of its infirm, but a multifaceted and ambiguous story emerges, where society’s ‘natural fools’ were elevated as much as they were belittled. Meet characters like William Somer, Henry VIII’s fool at court, whom the king depended upon, and learn of how the dissolution of the monasteries contributed to forming an army of ‘sturdy beggars’ who roamed Tudor England without charitable support. From the nobility to the lowest of society, Phillipa Vincent-Connolly casts a light on the lives of disabled people in Tudor England and guides us through the social, religious, cultural, and ruling classes’ response to disability as it was then perceived.