Witchcraft in England, 1558-1618 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witchcraft in England, 1558-1618 write by Barbara Rosen. This book was released on 1991. Witchcraft in England, 1558-1618 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
England's Witchcraft Trials
England's Witchcraft Trials - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook England's Witchcraft Trials write by Willow Winsham. This book was released on 2018-08-30. England's Witchcraft Trials available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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).
Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England
Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England write by Charlotte-Rose Millar. This book was released on 2017-07-14. Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A History of Witchcraft in England
A History of Witchcraft in England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Witchcraft in England write by Wallace Notestein. This book was released on 2014-05-01. A History of Witchcraft in England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many historical treatments of witchcraft tend to be somewhat sensationalistic and cartoonish. Not so with Wallace Notestein's measured, intellectual take on the subject in A History of Witchcraft in England, which offers not only a thorough historical narrative, but also puts the practice into social and political context.
The Devil in Tudor and Stuart England
The Devil in Tudor and Stuart England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Devil in Tudor and Stuart England write by Darren Oldridge. This book was released on 2011-11-08. The Devil in Tudor and Stuart England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
