Rogues and vagabonds

Book chapter

Hitchcock, D. 2026. Rogues and vagabonds. in: Early Modern Bodies London Routledge. pp. 574-595
AuthorsHitchcock, D.
Abstract

This chapter examines themes of "pollution, deception, and introspection" in both the social and cultural history of early modern bodies; particularly beggar, vagrant, and rogue bodies.

KeywordsVagrancy; Social history; Bodies; Cultural history; Early modern Europe; Begging; Representations; Poetry
Page range574-595
Year2026
Book titleEarly Modern Bodies
PublisherRoutledge
Output statusIn press
File
File Access Level
Controlled
Place of publicationLondon
Edition1
Publication dates
PrintJan 2026
Publication process dates
Accepted08 Oct 2025
Deposited08 Oct 2025
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351168922
Permalink -

https://repository.canterbury.ac.uk/item/9w3q4/rogues-and-vagabonds

  • 79
    total views
  • 1
    total downloads
  • 9
    views this month
  • 0
    downloads this month

Export as

Related outputs

Riches and poverty in English protestant culture, c.1550-1800: Vernacularising the parable of Dives and Lazarus
Hitchcock, D. and Waddell, B. 2024. Riches and poverty in English protestant culture, c.1550-1800: Vernacularising the parable of Dives and Lazarus. The English Historical Review. 139 (600), pp. 1143-1165. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae080
Begging places: Poverty, race, and visibility on Ludgate Hill, c.1815
Hitchcock, Dave 2024. Begging places: Poverty, race, and visibility on Ludgate Hill, c.1815. in: Grant, Charlotte and Robinson, Alistair (ed.) Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration London Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 49-56
Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800, by Ted McCormick, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Ideas in Context, 2022, 320pp, £75 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1009123266
Hitchcock, Dave 2023. Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800, by Ted McCormick, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Ideas in Context, 2022, 320pp, £75 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1009123266. History of European Ideas. 50 (4), pp. 654-656. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2023.2277178
Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London By Simon P. Newman. Pp. 229 + 35 illustrations. London: University of London Press, 2022. £12.00. ISBN 978-1-912702-93-0. Paperback.
Hitchcock, Dave 2022. Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London By Simon P. Newman. Pp. 229 + 35 illustrations. London: University of London Press, 2022. £12.00. ISBN 978-1-912702-93-0. Paperback. The London Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2022.2096779
Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police. By SalNicolazzo. New Haven: Yale. 2021. 320p. £50 (hb). ISBN 9780300241310
Hitchcock, Dave 2021. Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police. By SalNicolazzo. New Haven: Yale. 2021. 320p. £50 (hb). ISBN 9780300241310. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12768
The Routledge history of poverty, c.1450–1800
Hitchcock, D. Hitchcock, D. (ed.) 2020. The Routledge history of poverty, c.1450–1800. London Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
‘Rogues, devilry and strange wonders’: re-presenting early modernity in Neil Gaiman’s Marvel 1602
Hitchcock, D. 2019. ‘Rogues, devilry and strange wonders’: re-presenting early modernity in Neil Gaiman’s Marvel 1602. in: Drawing the Past: Histories of the Pre-Modern World in Comics Chicago University Press.
“Punishment is all the charity that the law affordeth them”: penal transportation, vagrancy, and the charitable impulse in the British Atlantic, c.1600-1750
Hitchcock, D. 2018. “Punishment is all the charity that the law affordeth them”: penal transportation, vagrancy, and the charitable impulse in the British Atlantic, c.1600-1750. New Global Studies. 12 (2). https://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2018-0029
'He is the vagabond that hath no habitation in the Lord' the representation of Quakers as vagrants in interregnum England, 1650-1660
Hitchcock, D. 2018. 'He is the vagabond that hath no habitation in the Lord' the representation of Quakers as vagrants in interregnum England, 1650-1660. Cultural and Social History. 15 (1), pp. 21-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2018.1427340
Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750
Hitchcock, D. 2016. Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750. London Bloomsbury Academic.