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Was Elizabethan society really under threat from a ‘rascally rabbalage’ of vagabonds?

Thomas HarmanThis enquiry deals with Elizabethan attitudes to poverty and the considerable fear of vagabonds and the ‘idle poor’ that existed.

The ‘rascally raballage’ of the title was a phrase coined in Thomas Harman’s dramatic description of vagabonds in his 1567 book.

Students look at a range of information in order judge whether Harman’s widely shared fear of vagabondage was justified before unpicking why the popular image of vagabonds was often at variance with the reality.

They end by writing an internet review for Harman’s pamphlets.

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