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Author : Wallace Notestein
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465583581
Author : Wallace Notestein
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 458 pages
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Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 149792667X
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.
Author : Notestein Wallace
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 498 pages
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Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318932432
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Wallace Notestein
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539179494
It has been said by a thoughtful writer that the subject of witchcraft has hardly received that place which it deserves in the history of opinions. There has been, of course, a reason for this neglect--the fact that the belief in witchcraft is no longer existent among intelligent people and that its history, in consequence, seems to possess rather an antiquarian than a living interest. No one can tell the story of the witch trials of sixteenth and seventeenth century England without digging up a buried past, and the process of exhumation is not always pleasant. Yet the study of English witchcraft is more than an unsightly exposure of a forgotten superstition. There were few aspects of sixteenth and seventeenth century life that were not affected by the ugly belief. It is quite impossible to grasp the social conditions, it is impossible to understand the opinions, fears, and hopes of the men and women who lived in Elizabethan and Stuart England, without some knowledge of the part played in that age by witchcraft. It was a matter that concerned all classes from the royal household to the ignorant denizens of country villages.
Author : Wallace Notestein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798574887769
Book Excerpt: ...ns; there is no elaborate and systematic theological explanation of human relations with demons.But these notions were to reach England soon enough. Already there were germinating in southern Europe ideas out of which the completer notions were to spring. As early as the close of the ninth century certain Byzantine traditions were being introduced into the West. There were legends of men who had made written compacts with the Devil, men whom he promised to assist in this world in return for their souls in the next.[2] But, while such stories were current throughout the Middle Ages, the notion behind them does not seem to have been connected with the other features of what was to make up the idea of witchcraft until about the middle of the fourteenth century. It was about that time that the belief in the "Sabbat" or nocturnal assembly of the witches made its appearance.[3] The belief grew up that witches rode through the air to these meetings, that they renounced Christ and engaged in foul forms of ...
Author : Wallace Notestein
Publisher : TGS Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 161033566X
Large Print 13 point font, -- When first projected it was the writer's purpose to take up the subject of English witchcraft under certain general political and social aspects. It was not long, however, before he began to feel that preliminary to such a treatment there was necessary a chronological survey of the witch trials. Those strange and tragic affairs were so closely involved with the politics, literature, and life of the seventeenth century that one is surprised to find how few of them have received accurate or complete record in history. It may be said, in fact, that few subjects have gathered about themselves so large concretions of misinformation as English witchcraft.
Author : Wallace Notestein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0740473751
Author : Wallace Notestein
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 133381478X
Excerpt from A History of Witchcraft in England From 1558 to 1718 Besides these seven types of material there should be named a few others less important. From the pam phlet accounts of the criminal dockets at the Old Bailey and Newgate, lea ets which were published at frequent intervals after the Restoration, are to be gleaned men tions of perhaps half a dozen trials for witchcraft. The plays of Dekker, Heywood, and Shadwell must be used by the student, not because they add information omitted elsewhere, but because they offer some clue to the way in which the witches at Edmonton and Lan caster were regarded by the public. If the pamphlet narrative of the witch of Edmonton had been lost, it might be possible to reconstruct from the play of Dek ker, Ford, and Rowley some of the outlines of the story. It would be at best a hazardous undertaking. To re construct the trials at Lancaster from the plays of Hey wood and Brome or from that of Shadwell would be quite impossible. The ballads present a form of evi dence much like that of the plays. Like the plays, they happen all to deal with cases about which we are already well informed. In general, they seem to follow the narratives and depositions faithfully. No mention has been made of manuscript sources. Those used by the author have all belonged to one or other of the types of material described. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : WALLACE. NOTESTEIN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033733539
Author : Wallace Notestein
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547558330
"A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718" by Wallace Notestein. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Wallace Notestein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1956964525
The History of Witchcraft in England 1558-1718 by Dr. Wallace Notestein is an extraordinary work of historical significance. Originally published in 1911 by The American Historical Society showcasing award winning Essays from 1909, The History of Witchcraft in England received the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European History for 1909.Documented with over 700 footnotes referencing original English source documents, this massive work is un-paralleled in the study of the phenomenon of witchcraft. Dr. Notestein was an Assistant Professor of History in the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. The Wallace Notestein Papers can be found in the Yale Archives at https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/4438Limited Edition of 500 Copies World-wide.
Author : Philip C. Almond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780857719812
'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 : John Callow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786732613
As dusk fell on a misty evening in 1521, Martin Luther - hiding from his enemies at Wartburg Castle - found himself seemingly tormented by demons hurling walnuts at his bedroom window. In a fit of rage, the great reformer threw at the Devil the inkwell from which he was preparing his colossal translation of the Bible. A belief - like Luther's - in the supernatural, and in black magic, has been central to European cultural life for 3000 years. From the Salem witch trials to the macabre novels of Dennis Wheatley; from the sadistic persecution of eccentric village women to the seductive sorceresses of TV's Charmed; and from Derek Jarman's punk film Jubilee to Ken Russell's The Devils, John Callow brings the twilight world of the witch, mage and necromancer to vivid and fascinating life. He takes us into a shadowy landscape where, in an age before modern drugs, the onset of sudden illness was readily explained by malevolent spellcasting. And where dark, winding country lanes could terrify by night, as the hoot of an owl or shriek of a fox became the desolate cries of unseen spirits.Witchcraft has profoundly shaped the western imagination, and endures in the forms of modern-day Wicca and paganism. Embracing the Darkness is an enthralling account of this fascinating aspect of the western cultural experience.
Author : C L'Estrange Ewen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136740046
Originally published in 1929, the author presents a formidable collection of facts, brought together in a scholarly manner. This is an examination of the general history of witchcraft, its changing laws and legal procedures, as well as methods of interrogation and punishment. This book must be considered an essential reference work for every student of witch lore.
Author : J. Barry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780230361386
Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated.
