Agnes Bowker's Cat : Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England Paperback / softback
by David (Professor of History, Professor of History, Ohio State University) Cressy
Paperback / softback
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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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:364 pages, black and white illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:15/02/2001
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- ISBN:9780192825308
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:364 pages, black and white illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:15/02/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780192825308
