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.
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"Cressy's endnotes are copious and his writing is exemplary, both erudite and fun to read. [This book] deserves the highest praise and placement on the bookshelves of anyone interested in Tudor-Stuart society."--History
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David Cressy is Professor of History at Ohio State University, USA
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- Book of Common Prayer (1979, Personal Size Economy, Black) by The Episcopal Church on 6 pages
- Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England by David Cressy on 6 pages
- Congenital Malformations by Josef Warkany on 4 pages
- Making the News: An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary ENG by Raymond Joad in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Monsieur Thomas (Collected Works of Beaumont & Fletcher) by Francis Beaumont on page 104, page 107, and Back Matter
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- Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe (Clio Medica 77) (Clio Medica S.) by A.W. Bates in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by Nathan Johnstone on page 76, and Back Matter
- Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century: Selected Papers from the Second International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (Studies in European Cultural Transition) by Michael Pincombe on page 108, and Back Matter
- Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) by Allison M. Levy on page 215
- Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) by Caroline Bicks in Back Matter
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