The Ipswich Witch
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The Ipswich Witch

Mary Lackland and the Suffolk Witch Hunts

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Ipswich Witch

Mary Lackland and the Suffolk Witch Hunts

About this book

The year 1645 saw the biggest witch-hunt in English history. Faced by the extreme challenges of religious dissent, poverty, sickness and the threat of foreign invasion, Ipswich became an ideological battlefield during the English Civil Wars. Here Puritanism struggled against Catholic sensibilities, the Devil loomed at the door of every English home, and the age of the witchfinder was born. This book focuses on witchcraft in Ipswich and the most extreme punishment ever given to an English witch, and challenges some stereotypes of the period: reflecting on the growth in Puritan sects, gender politics, the exploitation of the poor, the importance of beliefs in the occult and the rise of English power in the New World.

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Information

Year
2015
Print ISBN
9780752480527
eBook ISBN
9780752481876

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. 1 Two Deaths in Ipswich
  6. 2 Ipswich: The Setting
  7. 3 The Holy City of Ipswich and its Enemies
  8. 4 Undercover Religion and Cunning Men
  9. 5 A Witchfinder’s Career Cut Short: Patrons and Enemies
  10. 6 Evidence of Sin
  11. 7 Women, Witches and Quakers
  12. 8 Witches and the Poor
  13. 9 Re-examining the Trial of Mary Lackland
  14. 10 Aftermath
  15. 11 Conclusions
  16. Bibliography
  17. Copyright