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

Zusatztext Outstanding as a piece of histrical reconstruction ... Cressys impressive blend of documentary grasp! empathy and imagination throws a bright light upon the nature of the discipline of the established church! of dissent and the strength of the popular sense of community ... Cressy shows himself a master. Informationen zum Autor David Cressy is Professor of History at Ohio State University, USA Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In Agnes Bowker's Cat, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Cressy, David Cressy, David (Professor of History Cressy, Cressy David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2001
• EAN: 9780192825308
• ISBN: 978-0-19-282530-8
• No. of pages: 364
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; England, Europäische Geschichte, 1500 bis heute, Kulturwissenschaften, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Cultural Studies, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599