Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640

Susan D. Amussen is Professor of History at the University of California, Merced, USA. She is the author of Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700 (2007) and An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England (1988). She is also the editor of Attending to Early Modern Women (1998; with Adele Seeff) and Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England (1995; with Mark A. Kishlansky). The late David E. Underdown was George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University, USA. He is the author of A Freeborn People: Politics and the Nation in Seventeenth-Century England (1996), Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century (1992), Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 1603-1660 (1985) and Prides Purge: Politics in the Puritan Revolution (1971).

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Unruly Women
2. Failed Patriarchs
3. Performing Inversion: Theatre, Politics, and Society
4. Performing Inversion in Civic Pageantry and Charivari
5. Witches, Magicians, and the Upside-Down World
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index