Agnes Bowker's Cat: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England

by David Cressy

Book Overview

Cressy examines how the orderly, Protestant, and hierarchical society of post-Reformation England coped with the cultural challenges posed by beliefs and events outside the social norm. Drawing on local texts and narratives he reveals how a series of troubling and unorthodox happenings--bestiality and monstrous births, seduction and abortion, nakedness and cross-dressing, excommunication and irregular burial, iconoclasm and vandalism--disturbed the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198207816
• ISBN13: 9780198207818
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"