"That Fantasticall Herbe"

[MisterBadger]

Title edited for length. Original:

"That Fantasticall Herbe": Authoritarianism and Anti-Tobacco Legislation in early 17thC England

A long read, yet, my masters, well worth your patience...

Tobacco, Consumption, and Imperial Intent (Chapter 4) - The Making of an Imperial Polity

The Making of an Imperial Polity - January 2020

www.cambridge.org

 

[BingBong]

A good read. I'm now certain that tobacco encourages rebelliousness and ye growing of beardes.

 

[mingc]

Title edited for length. Original:

"That Fantasticall Herbe": Authoritarianism and Anti-Tobacco Legislation in early 17thC England

A long read, yet, my masters, well worth your patience...

Tobacco, Consumption, and Imperial Intent (Chapter 4) - The Making of an Imperial Polity

The Making of an Imperial Polity - January 2020

www.cambridge.org

This is your Master's thesis? Well done!

 

[MisterBadger]

This is your Master's thesis? Well done!

No, Sir - the address to "my masters" was an attempt at respectful Jacobean English, meaning 'you lot'. Had I meant to credit myself with the work, I'd have written that it was "my Master's". Sorry to have engendered the confusion: I am a mere B.A.

 

[K.E. Powell]

An excellent study! Many thanks for sharing it. I love how it married the economic and sociopolitical concerns of the time into a cohesive whole. The fact that anti-tobacco pamphleteering was spurred in part by anti-Catholic animus was especially illuminating.

 

[mingc]

No, Sir - the address to "my masters" was an attempt at respectful Jacobean English, meaning 'you lot'. Had I meant to credit myself with the work, I'd have written that it was "my Master's". Sorry to have engendered the confusion: I am a mere B.A.

No worries! It's not like everyone has a BA.

 

[MisterBadger]

No worries! It's not like everyone has a BA.

Well, *nearly* everyone in UK these days, it seems.

 

[SmokeyJock]

Well, *nearly* everyone in UK these days, it seems.

Not me