Patricia Fumerton is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultural Aesthetics; Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament and coeditor of Renaissance Culture and the Everyday.

"A highly original work of scholarship. This is one of the very few books that attempt to find their way into the mentality of the underclass in the early modern world, and one of even fewer books that succeed in so doing." - Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University"

Patricia Fumerton is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultural Aesthetics; Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament and coeditor of Renaissance Culture and the Everyday.

"A highly original work of scholarship. This is one of the very few books that attempt to find their way into the mentality of the underclass in the early modern world, and one of even fewer books that succeed in so doing." - Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University"

Patricia Fumerton is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultural Aesthetics; Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament and coeditor of Renaissance Culture and the Everyday.

"A highly original work of scholarship. This is one of the very few books that attempt to find their way into the mentality of the underclass in the early modern world, and one of even fewer books that succeed in so doing." - Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University"