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Witchcraft and the Act of 1604

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

09.04.2008

Herausgeber

John Newton

Verlag

Koninklijke Brill Bv

Seitenzahl

262

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,5/1,9 cm

Gewicht

579 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-90-04-16528-1

Beschreibung

Portrait

John Newton, Ph. D (2003), University of Durham, is a freelance editor and researcher. He has published various articles on the culture of the early modern period (he has a particular interest in the construction and interpretation of the 'supernatural') and edited Early Modern Ghosts (Durham University, 2002).
Jo Bath, Ph.D (2000), University of Newcastle, is a freelance historian, and Associate Lecturer in the history of Medicine for the Open university. She has published on witchcraft, ghosts, and north-eastern criminal history.

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

09.04.2008

Herausgeber

John Newton

Verlag

Koninklijke Brill Bv

Seitenzahl

262

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,5/1,9 cm

Gewicht

579 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-90-04-16528-1

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  • Produktbild: Witchcraft and the Act of 1604
  • Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1. Introduction: Witchcraft, Witch Codes, Witch Act, John Newton PART I. THE NEW KING AND THE CRUCIBLE OF THE ACT 2. King James's Experience of Witches, and the 1604 English Witchcraft Act, P. G. Maxwell-Stuart 3. Standing within the Prospect of Belief: Macbeth, King James, and Witchcraft, Roy Booth 4. Witchcraft and Possession at the Accession of James I: The Publication of Samuel Harsnett's Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures, Clive Holmes 5. (Re)possession of Dispossession: John Darrell and Diabolical Discourse, Tom Webster PART II. ENGLAND UNDER THE ACT 6. Applying the Act of 1604: Witches in Essex, Northamptonshire and Lancashire, Marion Gibson 7. The Treatment of Potential Witches in North-East England, c. 1649-1680, Jo Bath 8. Witchcraft and Stage Spectacle: Spectacular Witches after 1604, Chris Brooks 9. Witchcraft, Emotion and Imagination in the English Civil War, Malcolm Gaskill PART III. THE PASSING OF THE ACT 10. The Politics of Pandaemonium, Jonathan Barry 11. Decriminalising the Witch: The Origin of and Response to the 1736 Witchcraft Act, Owen Davis Appendix I. The Witchcraft Act of 1563 (5 Eliz I, c.16.) Appendix II. The Witchcraft Act of 1604 (1 Jas. I, c. 12.) Appendix III. Canon 72 of the Church of England (1604) Appendix IV. The Witchcraft Act of 1736 (9 Geo. II, c. 5.) Index