Witchfinders
A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy
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Word Count
96,000 words, Guess
Page Count
384 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7691665M
- ISBN-139780674019768
- ISBN-100674019768
- OCLC Control Number60589143
- OCLC Control Numberwitchfinders00malc
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2005046262
- Goodreads830108
- LibraryThing92762
Classifications
- LCCBF1581 .G38 2005
Description
"By spring 1645, two years of civil war had exacted a dreadful toll upon England. People lived in terror as disease and poverty spread, and the nation grew ever more politically divided. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne, exploited the anxiety and lawlessness of the time and initiated a brutal campaign to drive out the presumed evil in their midst ... Malcolm Gaskill retells the story of the most savage witch-hunt in English history ... Though their campaign was never legally sanctioned, they garnered the popular support of local gentry, clergy, and villagers ... [This story] serves as a reminder of the power of fear and fanaticism to fuel ordinary people's willingness to demonize others"--Dust jacket.
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