num_pages: 368
description: 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.
language: English
title: Agnes Bowker's Cat: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England
titlecomplete: Agnes Bowker's Cat: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England
genres: British Literature, History, European History, School, Crime, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 48
publisher: Oxford University Press