Witch Hunting In Scotland
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The Scottish Witch Hunt In Context
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Author : Julian Goodare
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2002-09-21
The Scottish Witch Hunt In Context written by Julian Goodare and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-21 with History categories.
This book is a collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-16th century to the early 18th. It particularly emphasizes the later stages, since scholars are now as keen to explain why witch-hunting declined as why it occurred. There are studies of particular witchcraft panics, including a reassessment of the role of King James VI. The book thus covers a wide range of topics concerned with Scottish witch-hunting - and also places it in the context of other topics: gender relations, folklore, magic and healing, and moral regulation by church and state.
Witch Hunting In Scotland
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Author : Brian P. Levack
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-16
Witch Hunting In Scotland written by Brian P. Levack and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with History categories.
Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award Witch-Hunting in Scotland presents a fresh perspective on the trial and execution of the hundreds of women and men prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft, an offence that involved the alleged practice of maleficent magic and the worship of the devil, for inflicting harm on their neighbours and making pacts with the devil. Brian P. Levack draws on law, politics and religion to explain the intensity of Scottish witch-hunting. Topics discussed include: the distinctive features of the Scottish criminal justice system the use of torture to extract confessions the intersection of witch-hunting with local and national politics the relationship between state-building and witch-hunting and the role of James VI Scottish Calvinism and the determination of zealous Scottish clergy and magistrates to achieve a godly society. This original survey combines broad interpretations of the rise and fall of Scottish witchcraft prosecutions with detailed case studies of specific witch-hunts. Witch-Hunting in Scotland makes fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in witchcraft or in the political, legal and religious history of the early modern period.
Enemies Of God
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Author : Christina Larner
language : en
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Release Date : 1981
Enemies Of God written by Christina Larner and has been published by Chatto & Windus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with History categories.
Analyse van de sociale achtergrond van de heksenjachten in Schotland in de periode 1590-1700, waarvan vooral vrouwen het slachtoffer waren
Scottish Witches And Witch Hunters
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Author : J. Goodare
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Scottish Witches And Witch Hunters written by J. Goodare and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with History categories.
This book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an overview of the main issues of live interest in Scottish witchcraft. As well as fresh studies of the well-established topic of witch-hunting, the book also launches an exploration of some of the more esoteric aspects of magical belief and practice.
Witchcraft And Masculinities In Early Modern Europe
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Author : A. Rowlands
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-10-22
Witchcraft And Masculinities In Early Modern Europe written by A. Rowlands and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-22 with History categories.
Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France.
Witches Of The North
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Author : Liv Helene Willumsen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-06-13
Witches Of The North written by Liv Helene Willumsen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-13 with History categories.
Witches of the North. Scotland and Finnmark is a comparative study of witchcraft persecution in Scotland and Finnmark, Norway. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative analyses based mainly on legal documents shed light on the witch-hunts in the two regions during the seventeenth century. Statistical analyses give information about tendencies in the source material in total. The qualitative chapters contain close-readings of trial documents, wherein the various voices heard during a trial are analysed: the voice of the scribe, the voice of the law, the voice of the accused person and the voices of the witnesses. The analyses combined provide a broad view of the historical phenomenon in question as well as in-depth studies of individual witchcraft cases.
The Witches Of Fife
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Author : Stuart MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2014-08-01
The Witches Of Fife written by Stuart MacDonald and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-01 with History categories.
Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reality of what happened the night that Janet Cornfoot was lynched at Pittenweem is hard to grasp as one sits by the harbour watching the fishing boats unload their catch and the pleasure boats rising with the tide. How could people do this to an old woman? Why was no-one ever brought to justice? And why would anyone defend such a lynching? The task of the historian is to try to make events in the past come alive and seem less strange. The details of the witch-hunt are fascinating. Some of the anecdotes are strange. The modern reader finds it hard to imagine illness being blamed on the malevolence of a beggar woman denied charity, or the economic failure of a sea voyage being attributed to the village hag, not bad weather. Witch-hunting was related to ideas, values, attitudes and political events. It was a complicated process, involving religious and civil authorities, village tensions and the fears of the elite. The witch-hunt in Scotland also took place at a time when one of the main agendas was the creation of a righteous or godly society. As a result, religious authorities had control over aspects of people's lives which seem as strange to us today as beliefs about magic or witchcraft. It was not accidental that the witch-hunt in Scotland, and specifically in Fife, should have happened at this time. This book tells the story of what occurred over a period of a century and a half, and offers some explanation as to why it occurred.
An Abundance Of Witches
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Author : P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
An Abundance Of Witches written by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Scotland, as with the rest of Europe, was troubled from time to time by outbreaks of witchcraft which the authorities sought to contain and then to suppress, and the outbreak of 1658-1662 is generally agreed to represent the high water mark of Scottish persecution. These were peculiar years for Scotland. For 9 years Scotland was effectively an English province with largely English officials in charge, but in 1660 this suddenly changed. The tension between imported official English attitudes to witchcraft and the revived fervor of Calvinist religion combined to produce a peculiar atmosphere in which the activities of witches drew hostile attention to an unprecedented degree.
Witchcraft And Belief In Early Modern Scotland
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Author : J. Goodare
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-12-04
Witchcraft And Belief In Early Modern Scotland written by J. Goodare and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-04 with History categories.
This pioneering collection concentrates on witchcraft beliefs rather than witch-hunting. It ranges widely across areas of popular belief, culture and ritual practice, as well as dealing with intellectual life and incorporating regional and comparative elements.
Borders Witch Hunt
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Author : Mary W. Craig
language : en
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Release Date : 2020-11-06
Borders Witch Hunt written by Mary W. Craig and has been published by Luath Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-06 with History categories.
The years between 1600 and 1700 were a period of war, famine, plague and religious upheaval in Scotland.A time when ordinary women, and men, of the Scottish Borders who fell under the suspicion of the Kirk would face interrogation and torture.A time when fear of Auld Nick turned the world upside down and the cry of witch would almost always lead to the rope and the flame.Mary Craig explores this tremulous period of Scottish history and examines the causes and effects of the 17th century witchcraft trials and executions in the Scottish Borders.