Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England

"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.

First sentence: This is a story about stories, about versions of evidence and fragments of information that circle around the telling of an historical tale.

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

2

Pages

368

ISBN

9780198207818

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