Author

Publication

2016-03-14 - Oxford University Press

Language

English

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100198717725
  • ISBN-139780198717720
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015943398
  • OCLC Control Number915508933
  • Better World Books9780198717720
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Classifications

  • LCCBF1581
  • LCCBF1581 .E46 2016

Description

A wide-ranging overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of archives, both local and national, it seeks to relate the rise and decline of belief in witchcraft, alongside the legal prosecution of witches, to the wider political culture of the period. Building on the seminal work of scholars such as Stuart Clark, Ian Bostridge, and Jonathan Barry, it demonstrates how learned discussion of witchcraft, as well as the trials of those suspected of the crime, were shaped by religious and political imperatives in that period.

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Other Editions

  • Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern EnglandHardcoverOxford University Press2016-03-14

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