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| Author | : Alan Macfarlane |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 0415196124 |
This book is the classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. This second edition adds a new historiographical introduction, placing the book in context today.
| Author | : Alan MacFarlane |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2002-09-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134644663 |
This is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The history of witchcraft continues to attract attention with its emotive and contentious debates. The methodology and conclusions of this book have impacted not only on witchcraft studies but the entire approach to social and cultural history with its quantitative and anthropological approach. The book provides an important case study on Essex as well as drawing comparisons with other regions of early modern England. The second edition of this classic work adds a new historiographical introduction, placing the book in context today.
| Author | : Darren Oldridge |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 2016-03-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317278208 |
The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England reflects upon the boundaries between the natural and the otherworldly in early modern England as they were understood by the people of the time. The book places supernatural beliefs and events in the context of the English Reformation to show how early modern people reacted to the world of unseen spirits and magical influences. It sets out the conceptual foundations of early modern encounters with the supernatural, and shows how occult beliefs penetrated almost every aspect of life. Darren Oldridge considers many of the spiritual forces that pervaded early modern England: an immanent God who sometimes expressed Himself through ‘signs and wonders’ and the various lesser inhabitants of the world of spirits including ghosts, goblins, demons and angels. He explores human attempts to comprehend, harness or accommodate these powers through magic and witchcraft, and the role of the supernatural in early modern science. This book presents a concise and accessible up-to-date synthesis of the scholarship of the supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England. It will be essential reading for students of early modern England, religion, witchcraft and the supernatural.
| Author | : James Sharpe |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2014-06-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317881303 |
With the renewed interest in the history of witches and witchcraft, this timely book provides an introduction to this fascinating topic, informed by the main trends of new thinking on the subject. Beginning with a discussion of witchcraft in the early modern period, and charting the witch panics that took place at this time, the author goes on to look at the historical debate surrounding the causes of the legal persecution of witches. Contemporary views of witchcraft put forward by judges, theological writers and the medical profession are examined, as is the place of witchcraft in the popular imagination. Jim Sharpe also looks at the gender dimensions of the witch persecution, and the treatment of witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Supported by a range of compelling documents, the book concludes with an exploration of why witch panics declined in the late seventeenth century and early eighteenth century.
| Author | : J S Cockburn |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2020-09-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000156257 |
This volume, first published in 1977, brings together eleven studies of crime and the administration of the criminal law in England during the early modern period. They represent a variety of approaches – legal, historical and sociological – to the study of historical crime. The initial essay in this study, which is written from a legal standpoint, is the first coordinated account of the structure of criminal law administration in this formative period. It is followed by investigations into the nature and incidence of crime, court appearance and punishment, separate studies of witchcraft, infanticide and poaching, and an account of conditions in eighteenth-century Newgate. This book will be of particular interest to students of criminology and history.
| Author | : Keith Thomas |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 853 |
| Release | : 2003-01-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0141932406 |
Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700, when science and rationalism began to challenge the older systems of belief.
| Author | : Wallace Notestein |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 1911 |
| Genre | : Witchcraft |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Bengt Ankarloo |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 1993-05-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780198203889 |
Based on extensive archival research, this study of European witchcraft and sorcery takes into account major new developments in the historiography of witchcraft.
| Author | : Mary Douglas |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1135032971 |
Historians as well as anthropologists have contributed to this volume of studies on aspects of witchcraft in a variety of cultures and periods from Tudor England to twentieth-century Africa and New Guinea. Contributors include: Mary Douglas, Norman Cohn, Peter Brown, Keith Thomas, Alan Macfarlane, Alison Redmayne, R.G. Willis, Edwin Ardener, Robert Brain, Julian Pitt-Rivers, Esther Goody, Peter Rivière, Anthony Forge, Godfrey Lienhardt, I.M. Lewis, Brian Spooner, G.I. Jones, Malcolm Ruel and T.O. Beidelman. First published in 1970.
