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Author : REGINALD. SCOT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033018132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (181 download)
Download or read book DISCOVERIE OF WITCHCRAFT written by REGINALD. SCOT and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip C. Almond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857719815
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book England's First Demonologist written by Philip C. Almond and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can indure with patience the hand and correction of God.' Reginald Scot, whose words these are, published his remarkable book The Discoverie of Witchcraft in 1584. England's first major work of demonology, witchcraft and the occult, the book was unashamedly sceptical. It is said that so outraged was King James VI of Scotland by the disbelieving nature of Scot's work that, on James' accession to the English throne in 1603, he ordered every copy to be destroyed. Yet for all the anger directed at Scot, and his scorn for Stuart orthodoxy about wiches, the paradox was that his detailed account of sorcery helped strengthen the hold of European demonologies in England while also inspiring the distinctively English tradition of secular magic and conjuring. Scot's influence was considerable. Shakespeare drew on The Discoverie of Witchcraft for his depiction of the witches in Macbeth. So too did fellow-playwright Thomas Middleton in his tragi-comedy The Witch. Recognising Scot's central importance in the history of ideas, Philip Almond places his subject in the febrile context of his age, examines the chief themes of his work and shows why his writings became a sourcebook for aspiring magicians and conjurors for several hundred years. England's First Demonologist makes a notable contribution to a fascinating but unjustly neglected topic in the study of Early Modern England and European intellectual history.
Author : Reginald Scot
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486260305
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Discoverie of Witchcraft written by Reginald Scot and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989-06-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 16th-century classic debunks witchcraft but offers remarkable primary source of information on witchcraft, witch trials, practice of the black arts. Introduction by Montague Summers. 17 illustrations.
Author : Reginald SCOT
Publisher :
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Discoverie of Witchcraft. London 1584. written by Reginald SCOT and published by . This book was released on 1665 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandy Bardsley
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812239369
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Venomous Tongues written by Sandy Bardsley and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The unique contribution of Venomous Tongues lies in its interdisciplinary approach and the way it situates scolding within a broader range of issues specific to the legal and social history of the period."—L. R. Poos, The Catholic University of America
Author : Wallace Notestein
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 written by Wallace Notestein and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Roberts
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613102321
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)
Download or read book A Treatise of Witchcraft written by Alexander Roberts and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Poole
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719062049
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Lancashire Witches written by Robert Poole and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial, which took place in 1612 when ten witches from the forest of Pendle were hanged at Lancaster. A little-known second trial occured in 1633-4, when up to nineteen witches were sentenced to death.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415195063
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)
Download or read book The Witchcraft Sourcebook written by Brian P. Levack and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of trial records, laws, treatises, sermons, speeches, woodcuttings, paintings and literary texts illustrates how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches and their activities.
Author : Thomas Heywood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells written by Thomas Heywood and published by . This book was released on 1635 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Potts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Pott's Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster written by Thomas Potts and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reginald Scot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book The Discoverie of Witchcraft, by Reginald Scot,... Being a Reprint of the 1st Edition Published in 1584. Edited... by Brinsley Nicholson,... written by Reginald Scot and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Elmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198717725
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England written by Peter Elmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England constitutes a wide-ranging and original overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of archives, both local and national, it seeks to relate the rise and decline of belief in witchcraft, alongside the legal prosecution of witches, to the wider political culture of the period. Building on the seminal work of scholars such as Stuart Clark, Ian Bostridge, and Jonathan Barry, Peter Elmer demonstrates how learned discussion of witchcraft, as well as the trials of those suspected of the crime, were shaped by religious and political imperatives in the period from the passage of the witchcraft statute of 1563 to the repeal of the various laws on witchcraft. In the process, Elmer sheds new light upon various issues relating to the role of witchcraft in English society, including the problematic relationship between puritanism and witchcraft as well as the process of decline.
Author : John Webster
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft written by John Webster and published by . This book was released on 1677 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reginald Scot
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of Witchcraft written by Reginald Scot and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Discovery of Witchcraft is an exposé of the early modern witchcraft. Originally published in 1584, the book was written against the belief in witches, to show that witchcraft did not exist. Part of its content exposed how feats of magic were done, and the book is often deemed the first textbook on conjuring. Moreover, the book contains a small section which describes how the charlatans were able to fool the public and why the prosecutions of the accused were unwarranted for and un-Christian. The author also provocatively held the Roman church responsible to the prosecutions. The book became highly popular as an exhaustive encyclopaedia of contemporary beliefs about witchcraft, spirits, alchemy, magic, and legerdemain. William Shakespeare also drew from his study of Scot's book hints for his picture of the witches in Macbeth, and Thomas Middleton in his play of The Witch likewise was indebted to this source.
Author : Eric Pudney
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526147750
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book A defence of witchcraft belief written by Eric Pudney and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first published edition of a fascinating manuscript on witchcraft in the collection of the British Library, written by an unknown sixteenth-century scholar. Responding to a pre-publication draft of Reginald Scot’s sceptical Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), the treatise represents the most detailed defence of witchcraft belief to be written in the early modern period in England. It highlights in detail the scriptural and theological justifications for a belief in witches, covering ground that may well have been considered too sensitive for print publications and presenting learned arguments not found in any other contemporary English work. Consequently, it offers a unique insight into elite witchcraft belief dating from the very beginning of the English witchcraft debate. This edition, which includes a comprehensive analytical introduction, presents the treatise with modernised spelling and relevant excerpts from Scot’s book.
Author : Reginald Scot
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015399365
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Being a Reprint of the First Edition written by Reginald Scot and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
