Author

Publication

2000 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

87,750 words, Guess

Page Count

351 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing524015
  • Goodreads556788

Classifications

  • DDC306/.0942
  • LCCDA320 .C96 2000

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.

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.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryPopular cultureSocial MarginalityMarginality, SocialSocial life and customsCuriosities and wondersEccentrics and eccentricities

Places

Other Editions

  • Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart EnglandOxford University Press2000

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