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

ISBN-13: 9780192825308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 368 str.

David Cressy

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

David Cressy is Professor of History at Ohio State University, USA