Agnes Bowker's Cat
Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
Av David Cressy, Ohio State University) Cressy, David (Professor of History, Professor of History
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr."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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2001-02-15
- Mått130 x 197 x 20 mm
- Vikt385 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor364
- FörlagOUP OXFORD
- ISBN9780192825308