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 margins, cut across the grain, and set the authorities on edge.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192825305
• ISBN13: 9780192825308
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.7"