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Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

12.10.2006

Herausgeber

Marion Gibson

Verlag

Bloomsbury

Seitenzahl

286

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,6/1,6 cm

Gewicht

439 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-8264-8300-3

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

12.10.2006

Herausgeber

Marion Gibson

Verlag

Bloomsbury

Seitenzahl

286

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,6/1,6 cm

Gewicht

439 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-8264-8300-3

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
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DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750
  • Produktbild: Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750


  • Acknowledgements

    Introduction


    1. Witchcraft in the Courts

    An Act against Conjurations, Witchcrafts, Sorcery and Enchantments 1541/2

    An Act against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts 1563

    An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits 1604

    The Witchcraft Act 1735

    Information and Examination: Suffolk 1645

    Printed Information and Examination: Devon 1682

    Indictment: Essex 1579


    2. Witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England

    The examination of John Walsh or Welshe, 1566

    W.W., A true and just Recorde (London, 1582)

    A Brief abstract of the Arraignment of nine Witches at Northampton, 1612


    3. English Demonologies

    George Gifford, A Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcraftes (London, 1593)

    Reginold Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (London, 1584)

    John Cotta, The Triall of Witch-craft (London, 1616)


    4. Stage and Page: Witches in Literature

    Thomas Middleton, The Witch (c.1613-15)

    William Shakespeare, Macbeth (c. 1606)

    John Ford, Thomas Dekker and William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton (1621)

    Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (Books 1-3, 1590)

    Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queenes (1609)

    Miles Gale (?), 'Witchcraft ye practice of deluded minds'


    5. Possession: The Devil and the Witch

    Jesse Bee and others, The most Wonderful and True Storie, of a certain Witch named Alse Gooderige (London, 1597)

    Edward Fairfax, 'A Discourse of witchcraft'  (1621-22)


    6. Learned Men and Magic

    Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus ( A text, 1604)

    Anon, The Merry Devil of Edmonton (c.1604)


    7. Magic and Money: A Trickster

    Thomas Heywood, The Wise Woman of Hogsdon (c.1604)

    Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610)


    8. Witchcraft in America

    Examination of Bridget Bishop

    Indictment of Bridget Bishop for afflicting Mercy Lewis

    Susannah Sheldon, evidence against Bridget Bishop and others

    Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World (Boston and London, 1693)

    Increase Mather, Cases of Conscience (Boston, 1693)

    John Hale, A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft (Boston, 1702)


    9. Decline and Change: Restoration to Eighteenth Century

    Joseph Glanvill, Saducismus Triumphatus (London, 1681)

    Francis Hutchison, An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft (London, 1718)

    Daniel Defoe, A System of Magick, or a History of the Black Art (London, 1727)


    Select Bibliography and Further Reading