Witchcraft In England
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Instruments Of Darkness
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Author : J. A. Sharpe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Instruments Of Darkness written by J. A. Sharpe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
From about 1550 to 1750, witchcraft was a subject of serious intellectual debate, punishable as a crime by the courts, and accepted as a reality at all levels of English society.
England S Witchcraft Trials
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Author : Willow Winsham
language : en
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
Release Date : 2018-08-30
England S Witchcraft Trials written by Willow Winsham and has been published by Grub Street Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-30 with Social Science categories.
By the author of Accused comes “an entertaining as well as illuminating” history of Britain’s most infamous witch hunts and trials (Magnolia Review). With the echo of that chilling injunction, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,” hundreds of people were accused and tried for witchcraft across England throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With fear and suspicion rife, neighbor turned against neighbor, friend against friend, as women, men, and children alike were caught up in the deadly fervor that swept through villages. From the feared covens of Pendle Forest to the victims of the notorious and fanatical Witchfinder Generals Matthew Hopkins and John Stearns, so-called witches were suspected, accused, and dragged to trial to await judgement and face their inevitable and damnable fate. In this “interesting, informative and insightful” book, historian Willow Winsham draws on a wealth of primary sources including trial transcripts, parish, and country records, and the often sensational—and highly prejudicial—pamphlets that were published after each trial. Her exhaustive research reveals just how frightening, violent, and terribly common the scourge really was, and explores the social conditions, class divisions, and religious mania that stoked its flames (All About History).
A History Of Witchcraft In England
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Author : Wallace Notestein
language : en
Publisher: The Floating Press
Release Date : 2014-05-01
A History Of Witchcraft In England written by Wallace Notestein and has been published by The Floating Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with History categories.
Many historical treatments of witchcraft tend to be somewhat sensationalistic and cartoonish. Not so with Wallace Notestein's measured, intellectual take on the subject in A History of Witchcraft in England, which offers not only a thorough historical narrative, but also puts the practice into social and political context.
A History Of Witchcraft In England From 1558 To 1718
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Author : Wallace Notestein
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
A History Of Witchcraft In England From 1558 To 1718 written by Wallace Notestein and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...the establishment of the Protectorate, a time that shaded off from the dark shadows of internecine struggle towards the high light of steady peace and security. By 1653 the equilibrium of England had been restored. Cromwell's government was beginning to run smoothly. The courts were in full swing. None of those conditions to which we have attributed the spread of the witch alarms of the Civil Wars were any longer in operation. It is not surprising, then, that the Protectorate was one of the most quiet periods in the annals of witchcraft. While the years 1648-1653 had wit Yet in 1650 there had been a scare at Gatesbead which cost the rate pa yen 2, of which a significant item was 6 d. for a "grave for a witch." Denham Tracts (Folk Lore Soc), II, 338. At Durham, in 1652, two persons were executed. Richardson, Table Book (London, 1841), I, 286. "J. C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals (London, 1890), II, 88. Cox, however, thinks it probable that she was punished. nessed thirty executions in England, the period of the Protectorate saw but half a dozen, and three of these fell within the somewhat disturbed rule of Richard Cromwell." In other words, there was a very marked falling off of convictions for witchcraft, a falling off that had indeed begun before the year 1653. Yet this diminution of capital sentences does not by any means signify that the realm was rid of superstition. In Middlesex, in Somerset and Devon, in York, Northumberland, and Cumberland, the attack upon witches on the part of the people was going on with undiminished vigor. If no great discoveries were made, if no nests of the pestilent creatures were unearthed, the justices of the peace were kept quite as busy with examinations as ever...
The History Of Witchcraft In England From 1558 To 1718
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Author : Wallace Notestein
language : en
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-03
The History Of Witchcraft In England From 1558 To 1718 written by Wallace Notestein and has been published by Literary Licensing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03 with categories.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.
A History Of Witchcraft In England From 1558 To 1718 The Esoteric Library
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Author : Wallace Notestein
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-10-01
A History Of Witchcraft In England From 1558 To 1718 The Esoteric Library written by Wallace Notestein and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-01 with categories.
It has been said by a thoughtful writer that the subject of witchcraft has hardly received that place which it deserves in the history of opinions. There has been, of course, a reason for this neglect--the fact that the belief in witchcraft is no longer existent among intelligent people and that its history, in consequence, seems to possess rather an antiquarian than a living interest. No one can tell the story of the witch trials of sixteenth and seventeenth century England without digging up a buried past, and the process of exhumation is not always pleasant. Yet the study of English witchcraft is more than an unsightly exposure of a forgotten superstition. There were few aspects of sixteenth and seventeenth century life that were not affected by the ugly belief. It is quite impossible to grasp the social conditions, it is impossible to understand the opinions, fears, and hopes of the men and women who lived in Elizabethan and Stuart England, without some knowledge of the part played in that age by witchcraft. It was a matter that concerned all classes from the royal household to the ignorant denizens of country villages.
Witchcraft In England
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Author : Wallace Notestein
language : en
Publisher: TGS Publishing
Release Date : 2010-11-09
Witchcraft In England written by Wallace Notestein and has been published by TGS Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-09 with categories.
Large Print 13 point font, -- When first projected it was the writer's purpose to take up the subject of English witchcraft under certain general political and social aspects. It was not long, however, before he began to feel that preliminary to such a treatment there was necessary a chronological survey of the witch trials. Those strange and tragic affairs were so closely involved with the politics, literature, and life of the seventeenth century that one is surprised to find how few of them have received accurate or complete record in history. It may be said, in fact, that few subjects have gathered about themselves so large concretions of misinformation as English witchcraft.
Witchcraft Witch Hunting And Politics In Early Modern England
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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.
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.
The Last Witches Of England
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Author : John Callow
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-10-07
The Last Witches Of England written by John Callow and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-07 with History categories.
"Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman "Thoroughly researched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine "Vividly told." BBC History Revealed "A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star "Astute and thoughtful." History Today "An important work." All About History "Well-researched." The Tablet On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and members of his family had, within a matter of hours, convinced themselves that the bird was an emissary of the devil sent by witches to destroy the fabric of their lives. As the result of these allegations, three women of Bideford came to be forever defined as witches. A Secretary of State brushed aside their case and condemned them to the gallows; to hang as the last group of women to be executed in England for the crime. Yet, the hatred of their neighbours endured. For Bideford, it was said, was a place of witches. Though 'pretty much worn away' the belief in witchcraft still lingered on for more than a century after their deaths. In turn, ignored, reviled, and extinguished but never more than half-forgotten, it seems that the memory of these three women - and of their deeds and sufferings, both real and imagined – was transformed from canker to regret, and from regret into celebration in our own age. Indeed, their example was cited during the final Parliamentary debates, in 1951, that saw the last of the witchcraft acts repealed, and their names were chanted, as both inspiration and incantation, by the women beyond the wire at Greenham Common. In this book, John Callow explores this remarkable reversal of fate, and the remarkable tale of the Bideford Witches.
Witchcraft And Society In England And America 1550 1750
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Author : Marion Gibson
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-10-12
Witchcraft And Society In England And America 1550 1750 written by Marion Gibson and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-12 with History categories.
A collection of materials, including works of literature as well as historical documents, this work provides a broad view of how witches and magicians were represented in print and manuscript. It presents the voices of witches, accusers, ministers, physicians, poets, dramatists, magistrates, and witchfinders from both sides of the Atlantic.