Table of contents

• Front matter

  • Abbreviations & conventions
    
  • List of tables
    
  • Acknowledgements

• Introduction. Contested conversations in early modern England

• Chapter One. Church courts and defamation in later seventeenth-century York

• Chapter Two. Finding the words: linguistic symbols and strategies

• Chapter Three. On the streets, in the courts: practices and ‘modes’ of defamation

• Conclusion. The personal and the political? Reputation, sex and the power of words

• Bibliography

Notes on this version

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March 2015