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Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England »

Authors: Julie Crawford
ISBN-13: 9780801881121, ISBN-10: 0801881129
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: September 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Julie Crawford

Julie Crawford is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University.

Book Synopsis

Crawford examines accounts of monstrous births in popular pamphlets along with the strikingly graphic illustrations accompanying them, demonstrating how Protestant reformers used these accounts to guide their public through the spiritual confusion and social turmoil of the time.

	Preface	vii
	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction: "Strange News" and the Reformation of England	1
1	Protestant Reform and the Fashion Monster	27
2	"The mother of a monster, and not of an orderly birth": Women and the Signs of Disorder	62
3	Forms of Imperfect Union	88
4	Heedless Women, Headless Monsters, and the Wars of Religion	114
5	The ranters monster and the "Children of God"	146
	Conclusion: The Signs of the Times	171
	Notes	187
	Bibliography	235
	Index	261