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'the Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500-1700

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'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500-1700 - Timbers, Frances
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Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets, rogue literature, and plays), and archival material, the book argues that the construction of gypsy identity was part of a wider discourse concerning the increasing vagabond population, and was further informed by the religious reformations and political insecurities of the time. The developing narrative of a fraternity of dangerous vagrants resulted in the gypsy population being designated as a special ...

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'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500-1700 2022, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781032402536

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'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500-1700 2016, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781472462510

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