Witchcraft And Whigs
DOWNLOAD
Download Witchcraft And Whigs PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Witchcraft And Whigs book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Witchcraft And Whigs
DOWNLOAD
Author : Andrew Sneddon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-12-15
Witchcraft And Whigs written by Andrew Sneddon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book breaks new ground in important areas of British and Irish 18th-century history, as well as providing a rare portrait of an early 18th-century Irish bishop and witchcraft theorist.
Witchcraft And Whigs
DOWNLOAD
Author : Andrew Sneddon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-12-15
Witchcraft And Whigs written by Andrew Sneddon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book breaks new ground in important areas of British and Irish 18th-century history, as well as providing a rare portrait of an early 18th-century Irish bishop and witchcraft theorist.
Possessed By The Devil
DOWNLOAD
Author : Dr Andrew Sneddon
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2013-05-15
Possessed By The Devil written by Dr Andrew Sneddon and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-15 with History categories.
In 1711, in County Antrim, Ireland, eight women were put on trial accused of bewitching and demonically possessing young Mary Dunbar, amid an attack by evil spirits on the local community and the supernatural murder of a clergyman's wife. Mary Dunbar was the star witness in this trial, and the women were, by the standards of the time, believable witches – they dabbled in magic, they smoked, they drank, they had disabilities. A second trial targeted a final male 'witch' and head of the Sellor 'witch family'. With echoes of the Salem witch-hunt, this is a story of murder, of a community in crisis, and of how the witch hunts that claimed over 50,000 lives in Europe played out on Irish shores. It plunges the reader into a world were magic was real and the power of the devil felt, with disastrous consequences.
Witchcraft And Magic In Ireland
DOWNLOAD
Author : Andrew Sneddon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-08-25
Witchcraft And Magic In Ireland written by Andrew Sneddon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-25 with Religion categories.
This is the first academic overview of witchcraft and popular magic in Ireland and spans the medieval to the modern period. Based on a wide range of un-used and under-used primary source material, and taking account of denominational difference between Catholic and Protestant, it provides a detailed account of witchcraft trials and accusation.
Samuel Wesley And The Crisis Of Tory Piety 1685 1720
DOWNLOAD
Author : William Gibson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-25
Samuel Wesley And The Crisis Of Tory Piety 1685 1720 written by William Gibson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-25 with Religion categories.
Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685-1720 uses the experiences of Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) to examine what life was like in the Church of England for Tory High Church clergy. These clergy felt alienated from the religious and political settlement of 1689 and found themselves facing the growth of religious toleration. They often linked this to a rise in immorality and a sense of the decline in religious values. Samuel Wesley's life saw a series of crises including his decision to leave Dissent and conform to the Church of England, his imprisonment for debt in 1705, his shortcomings as a priest, disagreements with his bishop, his marriage breakdown and the haunting of his rectory by a ghost or poltergeist. Wesley was also a leading member of the Convocation of the Church during the crisis years of 1710-14. In each of these episodes, Wesley's Toryism and High Church principles played a key role in his actions. They also show that the years between 1685 and 1720 were part of a 'long Glorious Revolution' which was not confined to 1688-9. This 'long Revolution' was experienced by Tory High Church clergy as a series of turning points in which the Whig forces strengthened their control of politics and the Church. Using newly discovered sources, and providing fresh insights into the life and work of Samuel Wesley, William Gibson explores the world of the Tory High Church clergy in the period 1685-1720.
Witchcraft And Folk Belief In The Age Of Enlightenment
DOWNLOAD
Author : Lizanne Henderson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Witchcraft And Folk Belief In The Age Of Enlightenment written by Lizanne Henderson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with History categories.
Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment represents the first in-depth investigation of Scottish witchcraft and witch belief post-1662, the period of supposed decline of such beliefs, an age which has been referred to as the 'long eighteenth century', coinciding with the Scottish Enlightenment. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were undoubtedly a period of transition and redefinition of what constituted the supernatural, at the interface between folk belief and the philosophies of the learned. For the latter the eradication of such beliefs equated with progress and civilization but for others, such as the devout, witch belief was a matter of faith, such that fear and dread of witches and their craft lasted well beyond the era of the major witch-hunts. This study seeks to illuminate the distinctiveness of the Scottish experience, to assess the impact of enlightenment thought upon witch belief, and to understand how these beliefs operated across all levels of Scottish society.
Witchcraft Witch Hunting And Politics In Early Modern England
DOWNLOAD
Author : Peter Elmer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Witchcraft Witch Hunting And Politics In Early Modern England written by Peter Elmer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England constitutes a wide-ranging and original 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, Peter Elmer 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 the period from the passage of the witchcraft statute of 1563 to the repeal of the various laws on witchcraft. In the process, Elmer sheds new light upon various issues relating to the role of witchcraft in English society, including the problematic relationship between puritanism and witchcraft as well as the process of decline.
The Oxford Handbook Of Witchcraft In Early Modern Europe And Colonial America
DOWNLOAD
Author : Brian P. Levack
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-03-28
The Oxford Handbook Of Witchcraft In Early Modern Europe And Colonial America written by Brian P. Levack and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-28 with History categories.
A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.
The Decline Of Magic
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michael Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-07
The Decline Of Magic written by Michael Hunter and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with History categories.
A new history which overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change is usually given to science – and in particular to the scientists of the Royal Society. But is this justified? Michael Hunter argues that those pioneering the change in attitude were not scientists but freethinkers. While some scientists defended the reality of supernatural phenomena, these sceptical humanists drew on ancient authors to mount a critique both of orthodox religion and, by extension, of magic and other forms of superstition. Even if the religious heterodoxy of such men tarnished their reputation and postponed the general acceptance of anti-magical views, slowly change did come about. When it did, this owed less to the testing of magic than to the growth of confidence in a stable world in which magic no longer had a place.
Witchcraft And Witch Trials
DOWNLOAD
Author : Gregory Durston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Witchcraft And Witch Trials written by Gregory Durston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Law categories.