Witchcraft And Society in England and America, 1550-1750
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Witchcraft And Society in England and America, 1550-1750

  1. 286 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Witchcraft And Society in England and America, 1550-1750

About this book


A unique collection of materials, including works of literature as well as historical documents, Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 provides a broad view of how witches and magicians were represented in print and manuscript over three centuries. It combines newly annotated selections from famous texts, such as Macbeth, Doctor Faustus, and The Faerie Queene with unjustly obscure ones: portrayals of witchcraft and magic from private papers, court records, and little-known works of fiction. In this rich, broad context, Marion Gibson presents the voices of "witches, " accusers, ministers, physicians, poets, dramatists, magistrates, and witchfinders from both sides of the Atlantic. Each text is introduced with a short essay and fully annotated to explain unfamiliar words and concepts,
give biographical details of participants and/or authors, and explore the context in which the text was produced.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9780826483003
eBook ISBN
9781441150530
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter one: Witchcraft in the courts
  5. Chapter two: Witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
  6. Chapter three: English demonologies
  7. Chapter four: Stage and page - witches in literature
  8. Chapter five: Possession — the devil and the witch
  9. Chapter six: Learned men and magic
  10. Chapter seven: Magic and money — two tricksters
  11. Chapter eight: Witchcraft in America
  12. Chapter nine: Decline and change — Restoration to eighteenth century
  13. Select bibliography and further reading
  14. Index