A01=David Cressy
Author_David Cressy
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- ISBN 9780192825308
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2001
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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"What a world is this? It is marvelous, it is monstrous! I hear say there is a young woman, born in the town of Harborough, one Bowker, a butcher's daughter, which of late, God wot, is bought to bed of a cat, or have delivered a cat, or, if you will, is the mother of a cat! Oh God!"
William Bullein - Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence (1578)
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.
David Cressy is Professor of History at Ohio State University, USA
