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Book Synopsis Witchcraft in Exeter, 1558-1660 by : MARK. STOYLE
Download or read book Witchcraft in Exeter, 1558-1660 written by MARK. STOYLE and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by : Wallace Notestein
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:
Book Synopsis The War on Witchcraft by : Jan Machielsen
Download or read book The War on Witchcraft written by Jan Machielsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of the early modern witch-hunt often begin histories of their field with the theories propounded by Margaret Murray and Montague Summers in the 1920s. They overlook the lasting impact of nineteenth-century scholarship, in particular the contributions by two American historians, Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) and George Lincoln Burr (1857–1938). Study of their work and scholarly personae contributes to our understanding of the deeply embedded popular understanding of the witch-hunt as representing an irrational past in opposition to an enlightened present. Yet the men's relationship with each other, and with witchcraft sceptics – the heroes of their studies – also demonstrates how their writings were part of a larger war against 'unreason'. This Element thus lays bare the ways scholarly masculinity helped shape witchcraft historiography, a field of study often seen as dominated by feminist scholarship. Such meditation on past practice may foster reflection on contemporary models of history writing.
Book Synopsis 'It is But an Olde Wytche Gonne' by : Mark Stoyle
Download or read book 'It is But an Olde Wytche Gonne' written by Mark Stoyle and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Stearne’s Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft by : Scott Eaton
Download or read book John Stearne’s Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft written by Scott Eaton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1645-7, John Stearne led the most significant outbreak of witch-hunting in England. As accusations of witchcraft spread across East Anglia, Stearne and Matthew Hopkins were enlisted by villagers to identify and eradicate witches. After the trials finally subsided in 1648, Stearne wrote his only publication, A confirmation and discovery of witchcraft, but it had a limited readership. Consequently, Stearne and his work fell into obscurity until the 1800s, and were greatly overshadowed by Hopkins and his text. This book is the first study which analyses Stearne’s publication and contextualises his ideas within early modern intellectual cultures of religion, demonology, gender, science, and print in order to better understand the witch-finder’s beliefs and motives. The book argues that Stearne was a key player in the trials, that he was not a mainstream ‘puritan’, and that his witch-finding availed from contemporary science. It traces A confirmation’s reception history from 1648 to modern day and argues that the lack of research focusing on Stearne has resulted in misrepresentations of the witch-finder in the historiography of witchcraft. This book redresses the imbalance and seeks to provide an alternative reading of the East Anglian witch-hunt and of England’s premier witch-hunter, John Stearne.
Book Synopsis Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England by : Anne Thompson
Download or read book Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England written by Anne Thompson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England, Anne Thompson demonstrates that the first ministers’ wives are not entirely lost to the record and, in offering an insight into their lived experience, challenges many existing preconceptions about their role and reception.
Book Synopsis The History of Witchcraft and Demonology by : Montague Summers
Download or read book The History of Witchcraft and Demonology written by Montague Summers and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic of esoterica explores witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, damnation, Satanism, and every variety of magic. Written by the field's foremost scholar, it features colorful, little-known anecdotes about witches, devils, and their arts. It also provides numerous historical accounts of witch trials and surveys the role of witches in literature.
Book Synopsis Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History by : Association of American Law Schools
Download or read book Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History written by Association of American Law Schools and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884 by : James Hammond Trumbull
Download or read book The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884 written by James Hammond Trumbull and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Last Witches of England by : John Callow
Download or read book The Last Witches of England written by John Callow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman "Thoroughly researched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine "Vividly told." BBC History Revealed "A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star "Astute and thoughtful." History Today "An important work." All About History "Well-researched." The Tablet On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and members of his family had, within a matter of hours, convinced themselves that the bird was an emissary of the devil sent by witches to destroy the fabric of their lives. As the result of these allegations, three women of Bideford came to be forever defined as witches. A Secretary of State brushed aside their case and condemned them to the gallows; to hang as the last group of women to be executed in England for the crime. Yet, the hatred of their neighbours endured. For Bideford, it was said, was a place of witches. Though 'pretty much worn away' the belief in witchcraft still lingered on for more than a century after their deaths. In turn, ignored, reviled, and extinguished but never more than half-forgotten, it seems that the memory of these three women - and of their deeds and sufferings, both real and imagined – was transformed from canker to regret, and from regret into celebration in our own age. Indeed, their example was cited during the final Parliamentary debates, in 1951, that saw the last of the witchcraft acts repealed, and their names were chanted, as both inspiration and incantation, by the women beyond the wire at Greenham Common. In this book, John Callow explores this remarkable reversal of fate, and the remarkable tale of the Bideford Witches.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare by : Bruce R. Smith
Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare written by Bruce R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary work will be of interest to students, theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars.
Book Synopsis Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, 1500-1800 by : W. Wyporska
Download or read book Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, 1500-1800 written by W. Wyporska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study examines Polish demonology in relation to witchcraft trials in Wielkopolska, revealing the witch as a force for both good and evil. It explores the use of witchcraft, the nature of accusations and the role of gender.
Book Synopsis A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by : Wallace Notestein
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:
Book Synopsis Witchcraft in Old and New England by : George Lyman Kittredge
Download or read book Witchcraft in Old and New England written by George Lyman Kittredge and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America by : Brian P. Levack
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America written by Brian P. Levack and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas. They also relate these prosecutions to the Catholic and Protestant reformations, the introduction of new forms of criminal procedure, medical and scientific thought, the process of state-building, profound social and economic change, early modern patterns of gender relations, and the wave of demonic possessions that occurred in Europe at the same time. The essays survey the current state of knowledge in the field, explore the academic controversies that have arisen regarding witch beliefs and witch trials, propose new ways of studying the subject, and identify areas for future research.
Book Synopsis Vanishing England by : Peter Hampson Ditchfield
Download or read book Vanishing England written by Peter Hampson Ditchfield and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Witch-hunts in Early-modern England, 1558-1660 by : Clarisse Cally
Download or read book The Great Witch-hunts in Early-modern England, 1558-1660 written by Clarisse Cally and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: