Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England

In Travesties and Transgressions, 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. He shows how unorthodox happenings bestiality and monstrous births, seduction and abortion, excommunication and irregular burial, nakedness and cross-dressing disturbed the margins, cut across the grain, and set the authorities on edge.