Instruments of darkness : witchcraft in England, 1550-1750
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Instruments of darkness : witchcraft in England, 1550-1750
H. Hamilton, 1996
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-352) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An historical account of English witchcraft considering the tensions in church, state and society causing witchcraft to be regarded as a threat, and legislated against in the mid-sixteenth century; and tracing the onset of scepticism leading to the abolition of legislation in the mid-eighteenth century.
Table of Contents
- Witchcraft in Elizabethan and early Stuart England: witchcraft and elite mentalities
- witchcraft in popular culture
- the theological and legal bases for witch-hunting. Five themes: patterns of prosecution and punishment
- England's mass witch-hunt - east Anglia, 1645-7
- accusations, counter-measures and the local community
- women and witchcraft
- possession. The problem of decline: the growth of judicial scepticism
- a changing religious context
- science and the decline of witchcraft.
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