Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: Tales of Discord and Dissension

About this book

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.