1st Edition
'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700
Introduction: ‘The damned fraternitie’: constructing gypsy identity in early modern England, 1500–1700
1 ‘From Aegypt have I come’
2 ‘Gypsies: thieves and tramps?’
3 ‘Chargeable unto the country’
4 ‘O’er the Moors to Kirk Yetholm’
5 The narrative of gypsyhood
6 ‘By lines they read in face and hand’
7 ‘These rowsey, ragged rabblement of rakehelles’: rogue literature
8 ‘The stain of my offence’
Biography
Frances Timbers holds a PhD in British History from the University of Toronto (2008). She has published two books and three articles that deal with issues of magic, witchcraft and gender in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Timbers is currently on a self-imposed sabbatical in Panama, where she spends her time writing about gypsies, teaching yoga, biking to the beach and caring for seven rescued cats.
