Marion Gibson (UK University of Exeter)

Reading Witchcraft

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reading Witchcraft explores the stories told by and about 'witches' and their 'victims', and questions what can be recovered from their trial records, pamphlets and personal accounts. It is an invaluable study of witchcraft stories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9780415206464
• ISBN-10: 0415206464
• Artikelnr.: 21587032

Autorenporträt

Marion Gibson is Lecturer at the University of Exeter

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 Records
Chapter 1 Ghost-writers-dialogue, interrogation and the production of the records of witchcraft
Chapter 2 Witchcraft trials and a methodology for reading them
Chapter 3 Deconstructing generic stories
Part 2 Pamphlets
Chapter 4 'Necessary' and 'triviall' pamphlets
Chapter 5 Prefaces
Chapter 6 An Open Conclusion, or 'Where do we go from here?'