A review by cupiscent
How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain by Ruth Goodman

informative lighthearted fast-paced

4.25

Delightful, informative, nicely delivered with broader context and nice comparisons with modern life to really aid understanding. The only slight niggle I had was that the structure was often repetitious--presenting by areas and categories of "misbehaviour" meant that similar drivers and considerations were repeated in each section, such as the dissonance of Quaker behaviour. I don't know that there's any better way to arrange things, though, and this was tremendously readable, tremendously easy to understand, and just plain good fun very often.