{"product_id":"agnes-bowkers-cat","title":"Agnes Bowker's Cat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"What a world is this? It is marvelous, it is monstrous! I hear say there is a young woman, born in the town of Harborough, one Bowker, a butcher's daughter, which of late, God wot, is bought to bed of a cat, or have delivered a cat, or, if you will, is the mother of a cat! Oh God!\" William Bullein - Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence (1578)  David Cressy examines how the orderly, Protestant, and hierarchical society of\n\u003cbr\u003epost-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\n\u003cbr\u003ehappenings-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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156786114798,"sku":"9780192825308","price":63.69,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780192825308.jpg?v=1706203604","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/agnes-bowkers-cat","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}