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Agnes Bowker's Cat: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England

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This entire book is about odd cases that made it to one court of law or another in early 16th Century England. I'm no English History buff but I had to read this book for a class I unfortunately signed up for this past semester.

First of all, the use of old court records and depositions to try and determine how society dealt with the Reformation and religious changes after Henry VIII is not going to get you too far. Especially when said records are missing large portions, lacking in certain key details and for the most part just testimony by persons trying to keep themselves in the favor of the courts so that they don't get themselves beheaded or what ever the Hell they did to people back then.

How much does the testimony of OJ Simpson refelct today's political and religious ideology?

I have yet to find a single part of this book that demonstrates one way or another just how society of that time did deal with the Reformation and religious changes taking place. Now I have to go write a 6 page paper about how it does.

The whole book reads like an Old English tabloid.