Abstract
List of illustrations Introduction 1. Agnes Bowker's Cat: Childbirth, Seduction, Bestiality and Lies 2. Monstrous Births and Credible Reports: Portents, Texts and Testimonies 3. Mercy Gould and the Vicar of Cuckfield: Domestic and Clerical Pleading 4. Rose Arnold's Confession: Seduction, Deception and Distress in the Heart of England 5. The Essex Abortionist: Depravity, Sex and Violence 6. Another Midwife's Tale: Alcohol, Patriarchy and Childbirth in Early Modern London 7. Cross-Dressing in the Birth Room: Gender Trouble and Cultural Boundaries 8. Who Buried Mrs Horseman? Excommunication, Accommodation, and Silence 9. Mocking the Clergy: Wars of Words in Parish and Pulpit 10. The Atheists Sermon: Belief, Unbelief and Traditionalism in the Elizabethan North 11. Baptised Beasts and Other Travesties: Affronts to Rites of Passage 12. The Battle of the Altars: Turning the Tables and Breaking the Rails 13. The Portraiture of Prynne's Pictures: Performances on the Public Stage 14. The Downfall of Cheapside Cross: Vandalism, Ridicule and Iconoclasm 15. The Adamites Exposed: Naked Radicals in the English Revolution Conclusion Index
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