Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England
Subtitle: tales of discord and dissension
By: David Cressy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Eccentrics and eccentricities -- England -- History -- 16th century; Eccentrics and eccentricities -- England -- History -- 17th century; Curiosities and wonders -- England -- History -- 16th century; Curiosities and wonders -- England -- History -- 17th century; Marginality, Social -- England -- History -- 16th century; Marginality, Social -- England -- History -- 17th century; Popular culture -- England -- History -- 16th century; Popular culture -- England -- History -- 17th century; England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century; England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.