R. T. Davies

Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs (RLE Witchcraft)

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and Stuart statesmen, ask whether witchcraft was of any importance in seventeenth-century English history, or even influenced the Great Rebellion. The reader is placed in possession of the more pertinent passages from the arguments used to support or discredit belief in witchcraft.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780415604192
• ISBN-10: 0415604192
• Artikelnr.: 40139616

Autorenporträt

Davies, R.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Growth of Witch
mania in Europe at the end of the Middle Ages 2. The Introduction of Continental Witch
believers into England 3. The First Period of the Great Witch
scare (1588
1618) 4. James I's Renunciation of his Belief in Witch
craft 5. The Attempts of James I and Charles I to Extinguish Witch
mania (1618
42) 6. Indignation Aroused by the Protection of Witches 7. Parliament and Witch
craft (1625
49) 8. The Second Period of the Great Witch
scare 9. Oliver Cromwell and Witch
craft 10. Conclusion