Rogue Studies Resources

1. Masterposts

Thieves’ Cant Masterpost

Lock Picking Masterpost

Dagger/Knife Fighting Masterpost

Rogues in Fantasy Literature Masterpost

D&D 5e: Homebrew Roguish Archetypes Compendium

Building a Rogue in D&D 3.5: Collected Resources

Traps Masterpost

2. Tools

AdBlock Plus

Sci-Hub (active as of May 2018; if broken, check here for new link)

Internet Archive Digital Library

Project Gutenberg

Wikipedia

3. Bibliography

Bandits and Outlaws

Eric Hobsbawm, Social Bandits and Primitive Rebels (1960); Bandits (1969)

Anton Blok, “The Peasant and the Brigand: Social Banditry Reconsidered”, in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 14, No 4 (1972)

Eric Hobsbawm, “Social Bandits: Reply”, in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 14, No 4 (1972)

Shi Nai'an, Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh (14th c.)

Stephen Basdeo, Geste of Robin Hood blog, especially the tags Robin Hood, Outlaws and Bandits

University of Rochester, The Robin Hood Project

Robin Hood Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood

Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (1819)

Valérie Toureille, Vol et brigandage au Moyen Âge (2012)

Clair Hayden Bell (transl.), Peasant life in Old German epics; Meier Helmbrecht and Der arme Heinrich (1931)

This Rogue, The Bandit / Irregular / Soldier loop (2017)

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1615)

Walter Scott, Rob Roy (1818)

Charles Macfarlane, The lives and exploits of banditti and robbers in all parts of the world (1858)

John Gill, El Tempranillo (1805-1833), the Andalusian Robin Hood

Bogdan-Vlad Vătavu, “The world of the hajduks”. Bandit subcultures in 19th century Romania and their balladry (2013)

Alexander Pushkin, The Brigand Brothers (1822); Dubrovsky (1832); Kirdjali (1834)

James J. Farsolas, Historical reality and legend in Alexander Pushkin’s short story Kirdjali (1991)

Gergana Georgieva, The Kircali Time as Metonymy

Prosper Merimée, Carmen (1845)

Edmond About, The King of the Mountains / Le Roi des montagnes (1856)

Nathan Brown, Brigands and State Building: The Invention of Banditry in Modern Egypt (1990)

Paul Sant Cassia, Better Occasional Murders than Frequent Adulteries: Banditry, Violence and Sacrifice in the Mediterranean (2000)

Spyros Tsoutsoumpis, Land of the Kapedani: Brigandage, Paramilitarism and Nation-building in 20th Century Greece; ‘A history of violence’: Paramilitarism, politics and organized crime during the Greek civil war (1945-1949)

Billy Jaynes Chandler, King of the Mountain: The Life and Death of Giuliano the Bandit (1988)

Rogues and Vagabonds

J.J. Jusserand, English wayfaring life in the middle ages (1920)

Anonymous, Lazarillo de Tormes (1554)

Sonia T. Banerji, Sturdy rogues and wanton wenches: response to vagrancy and development of the Tudor poor laws, 1530-1597 (1995)

This Rogue, No rest for the wicked: Anti-vagrancy laws in Tudor England, 1495-1604 (2017)

William Harrison, A Description of Elizabethan England (1577)

Frank Aydelotte, Elizabethan rogues and vagabonds (1913)

John Awdely, The Fraternitye of Vacabondes (1565)

Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors (1566)

Mateo Alemán, Guzmán de Alfarache (1599)

A.L. Beier, Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in Britain, 1560-1640 (1985)

Carol Moore, Poor Relief in Elizabethan England

E. B. Gent, A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew (1698)

Phil James, Moll Cutpurse: The ruler of the London underworld in the 17th century was an actor, a thief, a fraudster, a folk hero—and a woman. (2015)

Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker & Jennifer Panek, The Roaring Girl: Authrotative Text, Contexts, Criticism (2011)

Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722)

John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera (1728)

Henry Fielding, An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (1751)

Rictor Norton, The Georgian Underworld: A Study of Criminal Subcultures in Eighteenth-Century England (2012)

James Caulfield, Blackguardiana: or, A dictionary of rogues (1793)

William Harrison Ainsworth, Jack Sheppard: A Romance (1840)

Benedict Seymour, Notes on “The Last Days of Jack Sheppard”: Capital Crimes and Paper Claims (2009)

Stephen Basdeo, Rogue Fiction tag in Geste of Robin Hood

Urban Underworld and the City

Shawn Norris, Subura: Rome’s Original Suburb (2015)

Norman Pounds, The Medieval City (2005)

David Nicholas, The growth of the medieval city: from late antiquity to the early 14th century (1997); The later medieval city: 1300-1500 (1997)

William Benham and Charles Welch, Mediaeval London (1901)

Thomas Frederick Tout, A Mediaeval Burglary (1916)

Bronislaw Geremek, The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris (1987)

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame / Notre Dame de Paris (1831)

La cour des miracles: Un repaire de truands, mendiants et prostituées / Les mendiants se font bandits / Ni roi, ni Dieu

unknown author, François Villon (1431–1463)

François Villon, Œuvres complètes; Poems (transl.‎ David Georgi, 2012)

Mike Dash, Islam’s Medieval Underworld (2013)

C. E. Bosworth, The Mediaeval Islamic Underworld: The Banū Sāsān in Arabic Society and Literature (1976)

John Freely, Istanbul: The Imperial City (1998)

Fariba Zarinebaf, Crime and punishment in Istanbul 1700-1800 (2010)

Peter Linebaugh, Tyburn: a study of crime and the labouring poor in London during the first half of the eighteenth century (1975)

PBS.org, 18th Century London: its daily life and hazards

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Black London: Life before Emancipation (1995)

Anonymous, The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1886)

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838)

Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, Volume IV: Those that will not work, comprising; Prostitutes. Thieves. Swindlers. Beggars. (1861)

Heather Shore, Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London (1999); London’s Criminal Underworlds, c.1720-c.1930: A Social and Cultural History (2015)

Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography (2000); London Under (2011)

Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (1928)

Craig Gemeiner, The Dirty Tricks of the French Apache

Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (1928); Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic (1964)

Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century, Chapter 1. What Keeps Mankind Alive? (2009)

This Rogue, Epitaph (Ballad in Which Macheath Begs All Men For Forgiveness), and The Threepenny Opera censored (2016)

Jarrod Tanny, City of Rogues and Schnorrers: The Myth of Old Odessa (2011)

Isaac Babel, Odessa Tales (1926)

Roberto Arlt, The Mad Toy (1926); The Seven Madmen (1929); The Flame-Throwers (1931)

Jorge Luis Borges, A Universal History of Infamy (1935)

Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers / Notre Dame des Fleurs (1943); The Thief’s Journal (1949)

Darrell J. Steffensmeier, The Fence (1986)

Deborah Lamm Weisel, Contemporary Gangs: An Organizational Analysis (2002)

Geoff Manaugh, A Burglar’s Guide to the City (2016)

Various, The Story of Cities series / The Guardian (2016)

David Harvey, The right to the city (2008)

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)

H.G. Wells, “The probable diffusion of great cities”, in Anticipations (1901)

Allan Jacobs, Great Streets (1993)

K. Michael Hays (ed.), Architecture Theory since 1968 (1998)

City-Building, City Structure Models (2014)

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (1972)

Prisons and Gallows

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975); On the Role of Prisons (1975)

Andrew Dilts, To Kill a Thief: Punishment, Proportionality, and Criminal Subjectivity in Locke’s Second Treatise (2012)

Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I, Vols. I & II (1898)

Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture (2005)

Guy Geltner, A Cell of Their Own: The Incarceration of Women in Late Medieval Italy (2013)

Guy Geltner, Isola non isolata. Le Stinche in the Middle Ages (2008)

William Andrews, Bygone Punishments (1899)

Stefanos Daskalakis, The Imaginary Prisons of Piranesi (2017)

Uwe Böker, Title-pages and Frontispieces of Popular Accounts and Newgate Calendars (1600-1870) (2007)

The Newgate Calendar (1740-1842)

David Whitehouse, Origins of the police (2014)

Jacky Tronel, Le ferrement des forçats au départ de la prison de Bicêtre (2014)

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (1897); The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897)

Jean Genet, The Miracle of the Rose / Miracle de la Rose (1946)

Hanns von Hofer, Punishment and Crime in Scandinavia, 1750–2008 (2011)

Tom Murton & Joe Hyams, Accomplices to the crime: the Arkansas prison scandal (1969)

Erwin James, The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people (2013)

Elisabeth de Kleer, Dragons in the Department of Corrections (2017)

ExecutedToday.com

Corsairs and Pirates

Philip Gosse, The History Of Piracy (1932)

Colin Woodard, The Republic of Pirates (2007)

Joris Leverink, Pirates, Peasants and Proletarians (2016)

David Cordingly, Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates (1995)

Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates (1724)

Daniel Defoe, The king of pirates: being an account of the famous enterprises of Captain Avery (1719)

John Rattenbury, Memoirs of a Smuggler (1837)

Charles Ellms, The Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers (1837)

Anonymous, Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy (18??)

Joshua Michael White, Catch and Release: Piracy, Slavery, and Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean (2012)

Adrian Tinniswood, Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean (2010)

Stanley Lane-Poole, The Story of the Barbary Corsairs (1890)

Lord Byron, The Corsair (1814)

Molly Greene, Catholic pirates and Greek merchants: A maritime history of the Mediterranean (2010)

C. R. Pennell, The geography of piracy: northern Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century

Ernle Bradford, The Sultan’s Admiral: The life of Barbarossa (1968)

Peter Earle, Corsairs of Malta and Barbary (1970)

Highwaymen

Gillian Spraggs, Outlaws and Highwaymen: Robbery in English Society and Culture (2001)

Bret McCabe, Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground (2015)

Alexander Smith, A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts, & Cheats of Both Sexes (1714)

Patrick Parrinder, Highway Robbery and Property Circulation in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives

Robert Hopps, Narratives of Crime and Disorder. Representations of Robbery and Burglary in the London Press, 1780-1830 (2017)

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)

Stephen Basdeo, Highwaymen tag in Geste of Robin Hood

OutlawsAndHighwaymen.com

Mafia and Organised Crime

Kelly Barksby, Constructing criminals: the creation of identity within criminal mafias (2013)

Filippo Spadafora, Origins of the Sicilian Mafia (2010)

This Rogue, Mafia Lore: Honour and Blood (2016)

Mario Puzo, The Godfather (1969)

Pino Arlacchi, Mafia Business: The Mafia Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1988)

Letizia Paoli, Italian Organised Crime: Mafia Associations and Criminal Enterprises (2004)

Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection (1993)

John Dickie, Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia (2004)

Henner Hess, Mafia and Mafiosi (1998)

Marco Gasparini, The Mafia: History and Legend

Alexander Stille, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (1995)

Mark Bowden, Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw (2001)

Rebels and Illegalists

Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt / L'homme révolté (1951)

The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt (2016)

Rodney Hilton, Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381 (1973)

Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (1978)

Juliet Barker, 1381: The Year of the Peasants’ Revolt (2014)

Vincent Challet, La révolte des Tuchins: banditisme social ou sociabilité villageoise? (1998)

Steven Attewell, Revolt From Below – The Impact of the Smallfolk on the Game of Thrones (2016)

This Rogue, Stealing back the commons (2017)

Eric Hobsbawm, Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, aka Social Bandits and Primitive Rebels (1959); Bandits (1969); Cities and Insurrections (1975)

Bernard Thomas, The Lives of Sailor, Thief, Anarchist, Convict Alexandre Marius Jacob (1879-1954) (2013)

Jean-Marc Delpech, Parcours et Réseaux d'un Anarchiste: Alexandre Marius Jacob, 1879-1954 (2006)

Richard Parry, The Bonnot Gang: The story of the French illegalists (1987)

Doug Emrie, The illegalists (1995)

Chris Ealham, Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937 (2005)

Antonio Tellez, Sabaté, Guerilla Extraordinary / La Guerriglia Urbana in Spagna: Sabaté (1974)

Klaus Schönberger, VaBanque: Bankraub - Theorie, Praxis, Geschichte (2000)

Evan Johnston, The wonderful world of bossnapping

Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book (1971)

lse Biel, Zapatista Materiality Disseminated: A Co-Construction Reconsidered (2012)

Mike Duncan, Revolutions Podcast

Other

Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World (1965)

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)

Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness (1932)

Paul Lafargue, The Right To Be Lazy (1883)

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

Joseph L Goldstein, The card players of Caravaggio, Cézanne and Mark Twain (2011)

Martin C. Langeveld, Confidence: A natural history of the con man (2007)

Luke Owen Pike, A history of crime in England, Vols.I & II (1873)

Clive Emsley, Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 (1987)

Karl Marx, “Apologist Conception of the Productivity of All Professions”, in Theories of Surplus Value (1863)

Rachel Shteir, The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting (2011)

Linda Stratmann, The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder (2016)

Charles Mackay, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)

Jason Porath, Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics (2016)

This blog’s theory tag

And Greek bibliography here.

La Ligue du LOL, une armée de harceleurs au service de la classe dominante

[TW cyberharcèlement, sexisme, racisme, grossophobie, LGBTQIA+phobies]

▪️ Dans un article de Libération à l'angle discutable, en ce qu'il met la parole des victimes et celle des harceleurs sur le même plan, certain·e·s découvrent l'existence de la #LigueduLOL, cet escadron de soi-disant “trolls” des débuts de Twitter, obsédés par leur notoriété et leur influence au point d'écraser les plus vulnérables pour mieux se mettre en avant, ces journalistes qui ont bien réussi, se cooptant dans les rédactions, et pour certains, se rachetant même une “bonne conduite” à coup d'articles dégoulinants d'humanisme.

▪️ Nous tenons à le souligner haut et fort : il ne s'agit pas de “trolls”, encore moins de blagues ou de regrettables erreurs de jeunesse. Il s'agit d'une organisation méthodique pour faire taire les personnes minorisées. N'en déplaise à celleux qui croient dur comme fer à l'horizontalité du web, chaque voix ne s'y exprime pas sur un même niveau, et ces violences en ligne contribuent à faire d'Internet un espace d'expression réservé aux dominant·e·s. La liberté d'expression est importante nous dit-on, mais on omet de préciser que dans les faits, elle semble l’être seulement pour celleux qui abondent dans le sens de la classe dominante.

▪️ La lutte des classes n'a jamais été LOL, et on ne nous fera pas prendre des vessies pour des lanternes ou du cyberharcèlement pour de simples blagues et autres “saillies ricaneuses”.

🙌 Soutien, force et courage à toutes les victimes et merci à celles qui dénoncent aujourd'hui cette armée de “sales petits mecs”. Il est grand temps que le fait d'exercer de telles violences ait enfin un coût social.

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9 years ago

Tu viens d’entendre un nouveau mot ou une nouvelle expression créée par un groupe de personnes marginalisées, et tu as très envie de t’en moquer ou de pointer du doigt l’atroce danger que ces quelques syllabes font courir au monde-tel-que-nous-le-connaissons.

Tu cherches donc une façon simple et efficace de transmettre ton mépris et/ou ton angoisse.

Alors évidemment, tu utilises le mot “novlangue”.

Parce que même les gens qui n’ont pas lu 1984 savent que la “novlangue”, ça fout les jetons.

Peut-être que toi-même, tu as lu 1984, y a longtemps, et la novlangue, ça t’avait bien foutu les boules mais tu sais trop plus pourquoi. Apparemment tout ce dont tu te souviens, c’est que c’était une nouvelle forme de langue et ça permettait au gouvernement très vilain de faire du mal au cerveau des gens, donc le parallèle te semble évident - même si, dans la vraie vie, c’est pas forcément le gouvernement très vilain qui utilise ce ou ces mots qui te révulsent, mais bon c’est tout pareil parce que les féministes islamogauchistes du LGBT contrôlent déjà quasiment le monde alors on n’est pas à ça près.

Ce que tu as un peu oublié, c’est que, dans 1984, la novlangue n’était pas l’enrichissement du langage.

C’était un appauvrissement.

C’était ça qui foutait les jetons en fait. C’était une façon contrôlée de faire disparaître les nuances du langage. L’idée était qu’en privant les gens de mots décrivant la différence, on les empêchait de concevoir la différence, et par conséquence, de la vivre.

Donc en fait, quand tu te moques de personnes qui, pour lutter contre des structures oppressives, reprennent, détournent, créent et adaptent des mots, repensent la syntaxe et s’approprient leur propre langage, c’est toi qui défends une langue plus pauvre, une langue qui se conforme à ce que toi, tu trouves acceptable.

Alors dis-moi, c’est qui Big Brother dans ton histoire ?

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9 years ago

“i want an anime with non binary characters!!”

“i want an anime with a visibly disabled character!!!”

“no, a visibly disabled POC!!! and make them a woman!! and dealing with extreme poverty and homelessness!”

“well, what about a POC with severe mental and emotional trauma? and a narrative about the horrors of war and imperialism, and race supremacy!!”

“give me a woman who is as strong as the men in the power structure of her society!!! but don’t sexualize her!!!”

“give me an anime with a cast that’s diverse in terms of gender representation!!!!”

“show me the most successful anime of the past 30 years…that’s been written by a WOMAN!!!!”

“give me an anime with a cast of different races and religions!!! and show me a narrative that includes the way imperialistic white-dominated power structures oppress and devastate minority groups based on racism and destructive actions of war!!”

“give me an anime with character development and intense personal narratives!!”

“strong female characters and a narrative without sexism!!!”

“the best anime of the past twenty years!!!!! if not one of the top animes of all time!!!!!!”

“what should i watch next?????”

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8 years ago

me at night: tomorrow i'm gonna wake up early and start with a run and then i'm gonna go over my notes and drink a super healthy protein shake and eat fruit and work on ME i'm gonna dress so nice and be extra kind and study hard tomorrow i am gonna OWN this :)

me in the morning: no.

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9 years ago

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8 years ago

*frantically takes notes*

I always find it kind of weird that matriarchal cultures in fiction are always “women fight and hunt, men stay home and care for the babies” because world-building-wise, it makes no sense

think about it. like, assuming that gender even works the same in this fantasy culture as it does in ours, with gender conflated with sex (because let’s be real, all of these stories assume that), men wouldn’t be the ones to make the babies, so why would they be the ones to care for the babies? why is fighting and hunting necessary for leadership?

writing a matriarchy this way is just lazy, because you’re just taking the patriarchy and just swapping the people in it, rather than actually swapping the culture. especially when there are so many other cool things you could explore. like, what if it’s not a swap of roles but of what society deems important?

maybe a matriarchy would have hunting and fighting be part of the man’s job, but undervalued. like taking the trash out or cleaning toilets: necessary, but gross, and not noble or interesting. maybe farming is now the most important thing, and is given a lot of spiritual and cultural weight.

how would law work? what crimes would exist, and what things would be considered too trivial to make illegal? who gets what property? why?

how would religion work? how would you mark time or the passage into adulthood? what would marriage look like? if bloodlines are through the mother, bastardy wouldn’t even be a concept - how does that work?

what qualities would be most important in a person? how would you define strength or leadership? what knowledge would be the most coveted and protected? what acts or roles are considered useless or degrading?

like, you can’t just take our current society and say you’re turning it on its head when you’re just regurgitating it wholesale. you have to really think about why things are the way they are and change that.

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8 years ago

Bloody hell this is just great *_*

Some dwarves beauties for your day <3

Barís - @the-dragongirl Mizim - @flukeoffate Gimris - @aviva0017 Photos - @houkakyou Characters by @determamfidd

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10 years ago

Eliza Bennett

A Woman’s Work is Never Done

A series of photographic works titled ‘A Woman’s Work is Never Done’ Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread to create the appearance of an incredibly work worn hand. By using the technique of embroidery, which is traditionally employed to represent femininity and applying it to the expression of its opposite, I hope to challenge the pre-conceived notion that ‘women’s work’ is light and easy. Aiming to represent the effects of hard work arising from employment in low paid ‘ancillary’ jobs, such as cleaning, caring and catering, all traditionally considered to be ‘women’s work’.

The technique, I recall first applying to my hand under a table during a home economics class in school. I was totally amazed to find that I could pass a needle under the top layers of skin without any pain, only a mild discomfort. As with many childhood whims it passed and I hadn’t thought any more about it until quite recently when I decided to apply the process to my hand to make it appear calloused and work worn like that of a manual labourer. Some viewers consider the piece to be a feminist protest, for me it’s about human value. After all, there are many men employed in caring, catering, cleaning etc… all jobs traditionally considered to be ‘women’s work’. Such work is invisible in the larger society, with ‘A woman’s work’ I aim to represent it. (artist statement)

Website

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