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

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

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David Cressy (Author)  

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"What a world is this? It is marvelous, it is monstrous! I hear say there is a young woman, born in the town of Harborough, one Bowker, a butcher's daughter, which of late, God wot, is bought to bed of a cat, or have delivered a cat, or, if you will, is the mother of a cat! Oh God!" William Bullein - Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence (1578) David 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. black and white illustrations
David Cressy is Professor of History at Ohio State University, USA
  • Contributor: David Cressy
  • Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780192825308
  • Number of Pages: 364
  • Packaged Dimensions: 130x197x20mm
  • Packaged Weight: 385
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Release Date: 2001-02-15
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: David Cressy is Professor of History at Ohio State University, USA

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