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Zusatztext In this highly readable and instructive book, the well-known social historian David Cressy tells fifteen stories of strange or troubling incidents ... he seeks to avoid the conventional formulation of a problem and a hypothesis and a "clear sense of closure", relying instead on laying out his evidence as fully as possible, listening carefully to the "voices of the past", and remaining alert to multiple connections and layers of significance. 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 Travesties and Transgressions examines how the orderly and Protestant society of post-Reformation England coped with the cultural challenges posed by beliefs and events outside the norm. It shows how unorthodox happenings such as bestiality and abortion, nakedness and cross-dressing set the authorities on edge. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations Introduction 1: Agnes Bowker's Cat: Childbirth, Seduction, Bestiality and Lies 2: Monstrous Births and Credible Reports: Portents, Texts and Testimonies 3: Mercy Gould and the Vicar of Cuckfield: Domestic and Clerical Pleading 4: Rose Arnold's Confession: Seduction, Deception and Distress in the Heart of England 5: The Essex Abortionist: Depravity, Sex and Violence 6: Another Midwife's Tale: Alcohol, Patriarchy and Childbirth in Early Modern London 7: Cross-Dressing in the Birth Room: Gender Trouble and Cultural Boundaries 8: Who Buried Mrs Horseman? Excommunication, Accommodation, and Silence 9: Mocking the Clergy: Wars of Words in Parish and Pulpit 10: The Atheists Sermon: Belief, Unbelief and Traditionalism in the Elizabethan North 11: Baptised Beasts and Other Travesties: Affronts to Rites of Passage 12: The Battle of the Altars: Turning the Tables and Breaking the Rails 13: The Portraiture of Prynne's Pictures: Performances on the Public Stage 14: The Downfall of Cheapside Cross: Vandalism, Ridicule and Iconoclasm 15: The Adamites Exposed: Naked Radicals in the English Revolution Conclusion Index ...
