Title: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England
First published: December 27, 1999
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.
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders, Eccentrics and eccentricities, History, Marginality, Social, Popular culture, Social Marginality, Social life and customs, Great britain, history, stuarts, 1603-1714, Great britain, history, tudors, 1485-1603
Places: England
Time periods: 16th century, 17th century
LC classification: DA320 .C96 2000