Witchcraft In England 1558 1618

Author : Barbara Rosen
Publisher : Syracuse Studies on Peace and
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024964671

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Witchcraft in England, 1558-1618 by Barbara Rosen Pdf

Anyone interested in manifestations of witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England will find this book an invaluable source. Barbara Rosen has gathered and edited a rare collection of documents--pamphlets, reports, trial accounts, and other material--that describes the experience, interpretation, and punishment of witchcraft in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In her introduction, Rosen explores the full range of practices and beliefs associated with witchcraft and situates these phenomena in historical context. She explains how ignorance of science and medicine combined with social circumstance and religious ideology to shape popular perceptions and superstitions. Distinguishing between English and Continental forms of witchcraft, she also examines the legal definitions, disciplines, and punishments applied to wizards, witches, wise women, and conjures in the Elizabethan age. The pamphlets and other original texts have been modernized in certain respects to make them more accessible to general readers. But the book retains its value for scholars: omissions are detailed in the notes and additions marked; obsolete words and grammar are explained in the glossary. Originally published in England in 1970 under the title Witchcraft, this book appears now for the first time in paperback and includes a new preface by the editor.

Author : Willow Winsham
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473870963

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England's Witchcraft Trials by Willow Winsham Pdf

By the author of Accused comes “an entertaining as well as illuminating” history of Britain’s most infamous witch hunts and trials (Magnolia Review). With the echo of that chilling injunction, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,” hundreds of people were accused and tried for witchcraft across England throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With fear and suspicion rife, neighbor turned against neighbor, friend against friend, as women, men, and children alike were caught up in the deadly fervor that swept through villages. From the feared covens of Pendle Forest to the victims of the notorious and fanatical Witchfinder Generals Matthew Hopkins and John Stearns, so-called witches were suspected, accused, and dragged to trial to await judgement and face their inevitable and damnable fate. In this “interesting, informative and insightful” book, historian Willow Winsham draws on a wealth of primary sources including trial transcripts, parish, and country records, and the often sensational—and highly prejudicial—pamphlets that were published after each trial. Her exhaustive research reveals just how frightening, violent, and terribly common the scourge really was, and explores the social conditions, class divisions, and religious mania that stoked its flames (All About History).

Author : Wallace Notestein
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1500746479

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A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein Pdf

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.

Author : Andrew Moore
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498575522

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Magic in Early Modern England by Andrew Moore Pdf

This book places early modern philosophy and political theory into conversation with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing on magic: plays, spell books, treatises, and witch trial narratives. Reading works by Hobbes and Bacon alongside writing by necromancers and witch-hunters reveals a broad cultural obsession with supernatural power.

Author : Charlotte-Rose Millar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134769889

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Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England by Charlotte-Rose Millar Pdf

This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the Devil in English witchcraft pamphlets for the entire period of state-sanctioned witchcraft prosecutions (1563-1735). It provides a rereading of English witchcraft, one which moves away from an older historiography which underplays the role of the Devil in English witchcraft and instead highlights the crucial role that the Devil, often in the form of a familiar spirit, took in English witchcraft belief. One of the key ways in which this book explores the role of the Devil is through emotions. Stories of witches were made up of a complex web of emotionally implicated accusers, victims, witnesses, and supposed perpetrators. They reveal a range of emotional experiences that do not just stem from malefic witchcraft but also, and primarily, from a witch’s links with the Devil. This book, then, has two main objectives. First, to suggest that English witchcraft pamphlets challenge our understanding of English witchcraft as a predominantly non-diabolical crime, and second, to highlight how witchcraft narratives emphasized emotions as the primary motivation for witchcraft acts and accusations.

Author : Marion Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134607631

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Early Modern Witches by Marion Gibson Pdf

This collection of pamphlets describes fifteen English witchcraft cases in detail, vividly recreating events to give the reader the illusion of actually being present at witchcraft accusations, trials and hangings. But how much are we victims of literary manipulation by these texts? The pamphlets are presented in annotated format, to allow the reader to decide. Some of the texts appear in print for the first time in three centuries, whilst others are newly edited to give a clearer picture of sources.

Author : Marion Gibson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415206457

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Reading Witchcraft by Marion Gibson Pdf

Reading Witchcraft explores the stories told by and about 'witches' and their 'victims', and questions what can be recovered from their trial records, pamphlets and personal accounts. It is an invaluable study of witchcraft stories.

Author : Darren Oldridge
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752476421

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The Devil in Tudor and Stuart England by Darren Oldridge Pdf

The Devil was a commanding figure in Tudor and Stuart England. He played a leading role in the religious and political conflicts of the age, and inspired great works of poetry and drama. During the turmoil of the English Civil War, fears of a secret conspiracy of Devil-worshippers fuelled a witch-hunt that claimed at least a hundred lives. This book traces the idea of the Devel from the English Reformation to the scientific revolution of the late seventeenth century. It shows that he was not only a central figure in the imaginative life of the age, but also a deeply ambiguous and complex one: the avowed enemy of God and his unwilling accomplice, and a creature that provoked fascination, comedy and dread.

Author : Julian Goodare,Rita Voltmer,Liv Helene Willumsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000080803

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Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe by Julian Goodare,Rita Voltmer,Liv Helene Willumsen Pdf

Demonology – the intellectual study of demons and their powers – contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists’ concerns remained at an abstract intellectual level, while some of the judges’ concerns reflected popular culture. This book brings demonology and witch-hunting back together, while placing both topics in their specific regional cultures. The book’s chapters, each written by a leading scholar, cover most regions of Europe, from Scandinavia and Britain through to Germany, France and Switzerland, and Italy and Spain. By focusing on various intellectual levels of demonology, from sophisticated demonological thought to the development of specific demonological ideas and ideas within the witch trial environment, the book offers a thorough examination of the relationship between demonology and witch-hunting. Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of demonology, witch-hunting and early modern Europe.

Author : Jonathan B. Durrant
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047420552

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Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany by Jonathan B. Durrant Pdf

Using the example of Eichstätt, this book challenges current witchcraft historiography by arguing that the gender of the witch-suspect was a product of the interrogation process and that the stable communities affected by persecution did not collude in its escalation.

Author : Lyndal Roper
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300176520

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Witch Craze by Lyndal Roper Pdf

From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches—of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops—and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond. Drawing on hundreds of original trial transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper paints a vivid picture of their lives, families, and tribulations. She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly women in our own culture.

Author : Christopher Josiffe
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781913689148

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Gef! by Christopher Josiffe Pdf

An exhaustive investigation of the case of Gef, a “talking mongoose” or “man-weasel,” who appeared to a family living on the Isle of Man. “I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!” During the mid-1930s, British and overseas newspapers were full of incredible stories about Gef, a “talking mongoose” or “man-weasel” who had allegedly appeared in the home of the Irvings, a farming family in a remote district of the Isle of Man. The creature was said to speak in several languages, to sing, to steal objects from nearby farms, and to eavesdrop on local people. Despite written reports, magazine articles and books, several photographs, fur samples and paw prints, voluminous correspondence, and signed eyewitness statements, there is still no consensus as to what was really happening to the Irving family. Was it a hoax? An extreme case of folie à plusieurs? A poltergeist? The possession of an animal by an evil spirit? Now you can read all the evidence and decide for yourself. Seven years' research and interviews, photographs (many previously unseen), interviews with surviving witnesses, visits to the site—all are presented in this book, the first examination of the case for seventy years. In the words of its mischievous, enigmatic subject, “If you knew what I know, you'd know a hell of a lot!"

Author : Deborah Willis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501711602

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Malevolent Nurture by Deborah Willis Pdf

In Malevolent Nurture, Deborah Willis explores the dynamics of witchcraft accusation through legal documents, pamphlet literature, religious tracts, and the plays of Shakespeare.

Author : Frances E. Dolan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0801481341

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Dangerous Familiars by Frances E. Dolan Pdf

Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why.

Author : Wallace Notestein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0740473751

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A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 To 1718 by Wallace Notestein Pdf