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Author : Thomas Ady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1661
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021163258
Author : Thomas Ady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1661
Category : Witchcraft
ISBN : OCLC:645627770
Author : Charles E. Orser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107130487
Explores the tremendous discoveries historical archaeologists have made about English life in the Americas during the seventeenth century.
Author : Richard M. Golden Director, Jewish Studies Program
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851095124
The definitive compilation on witchcraft and witch hunting in the early modern era exploring significant people, places, beliefs, and events. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition is the definitive reference on the age of witch hunting (approximately 1430–1750), its origins, expansion, and ultimate decline. Incorporating a wealth of recent scholarship in four richly illustrated, alphabetically organized volumes, it offers historians and general readers alike the opportunity to explore the realities behind the legends of witchcraft and witchcraft trials. Over 170 contributors from 28 nations provide vivid, documented descriptions and analyses of witchcraft trials and locations, folklore and beliefs, magical practices and deities, influential texts, and the full range of players in this extraordinary drama—witchcraft theorists and theologians; historians and authors; judges, clergy, and rulers; the accused; and their persecutors. Concentrating on Europe and the Americas in the early modern era, the work also covers relevant topics from the ancient Near East (including the Hebrew and Christian Bibles), classical antiquity, and the European Middle Ages.
Author : Lucinda Cole
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472052950
Lucinda Cole’s Imperfect Creatures offers the first full-length study of the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of “vermin” as creatures and category in the early modern literary, scientific, and political imagination. In the space between theology and an emergent empiricism, Cole’s argument engages a wide historical swath of canonical early modern literary texts—William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, Abraham Cowley’s The Plagues of Egypt, Thomas Shadwell’s The Virtuoso, the Earl of Rochester’s “A Ramble in St. James’s Park,” and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year—alongside other nonliterary primary sources and under-examined archival materials from the period, including treatises on animal trials, grain shortages, rabies, and comparative neuroanatomy. As Cole illustrates, human health and demographic problems—notably those of feeding populations periodically stricken by hunger, disease, and famine—were tied to larger questions about food supplies, property laws, national identity, and the theological imperatives that underwrote humankind’s claim to dominion over the animal kingdom. In this context, Cole’s study indicates, so-called “vermin” occupied liminal spaces between subject and object, nature and animal, animal and the devil, the devil and disease—even reason and madness. This verminous discourse formed a foundational category used to carve out humankind’s relationship to an unpredictable, irrational natural world, but it evolved into a form for thinking about not merely animals but anything that threatened the health of the body politic—humans, animals, and even thoughts.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0815310293
Author : John Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Witchcraft
ISBN : UOM:39015034715105
Author : Erika Gasser
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479831791
Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England Those possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited a common set of symptoms: fits, vomiting, visions, contortions, speaking in tongues, and an antipathy to prayer. However, it was a matter of interpretation, and sometimes public opinion, if these symptoms were visited upon the victim, or if they came from within. Both early modern England and colonial New England had cases that blurred the line between witchcraft and demonic possession, most famously, the Salem witch trials. While historians acknowledge some similarities in witch trials between the two regions, such as the fact that an overwhelming majority of witches were women, the histories of these cases primarily focus on local contexts and specifics. In so doing, they overlook the ways in which manhood factored into possession and witchcraft cases. Vexed with Devils is a cultural history of witchcraft-possession phenomena that centers on the role of men and patriarchal power. Erika Gasser reveals that witchcraft trials had as much to do with who had power in the community, to impose judgement or to subvert order, as they did with religious belief. She argues that the gendered dynamics of possession and witchcraft demonstrated that contested meanings of manhood played a critical role in the struggle to maintain authority. While all men were not capable of accessing power in the same ways, many of the people involved—those who acted as if they were possessed, men accused of being witches, and men who wrote possession propaganda—invoked manhood as they struggled to advocate for themselves during these perilous times. Gasser ultimately concludes that the decline of possession and witchcraft cases was not merely a product of change over time, but rather an indication of the ways in which patriarchal power endured throughout and beyond the colonial period. Vexed with Devils reexamines an unnerving time and offers a surprising new perspective on our own, using stories and voices which emerge from the records in ways that continue to fascinate and unsettle us.
Author : Peter Elmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191027529
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455927
Author : Cornell University. Libraries
Publisher : Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120263202
Author : Winfried Herget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Salem (Mass.)
ISBN : UVA:X006071970
Author : Bernhard Fabian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Early printed books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015860286
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
ISBN : UOM:39015067224041
Author : James Tregaskis (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015078071340