Agnes Bowker's cat : travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cressy, David
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:	Marginality, Social > England > History > 16th century. Marginality, Social > England > History > 17th century. Eccentrics and eccentricities > England > History > 16th century. Eccentrics and eccentricities > England > History > 17th century. England > Social life and customs > 16th century. England > Social life and customs > 17th century.

Table of Contents:

Agnes Bowker's cat : childbirth, seduction, bestiality, and lies
Monstrous births and credible reports : portents, texts, and testimonies
Mercy Gould and the Vicar of Cuckfield : domestic and clerical pleading
Rose Arnold's confession : seduction, deception, and distress in the heart of England
The Essex abortionist : depravity, sex, and violence
Another midwife's tale : alcohol, patriarchy, and childbirth in early modern London
Cross-dressing in the birth room : gender trouble and cultural boundaries
Who buried Mrs. Horseman? Excommunication, accommodation, and silence
Mocking the clergy : wars of words in parish and pulpit
The atheist's sermon : belief, unbelief, and traditionalism in the Elizabethan north
Baptized beasts and other travesties : affronts to rites of passage
The battle of the altars : turning the tables and breaking the rails
The portraiture of Prynne's pictures : performance on the public stage
The downfall of Cheapside Cross : vandalism, ridicule, and iconoclasm
The Adamites exposed : naked radicals in the English Revolution.