The Scottish witch-hunt in context

Herausgeber: Goodare, Julian

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Produktbeschreibung

As a showcase for the latest thinking on the Scottish witch-hunt, this collection of essays examines both a wide range of topics relevant to the subject during its full history and places Scottish witchcraft in a wider global context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9780719060243
• ISBN-10: 0719060249
• Artikelnr.: 22419989

Autorenporträt

Julian Goodare is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh

Inhaltsangabe

Preface List of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on contributors 1. Introduction
Julian Goodare 2. The global context of the Scottish witch
hunt
Ronald Hutton 3. In search of the Devil in Fife witchcraft cases, 1560
1705
Stuart MacDonald 4. The Scottish witchcraft panic of 1597
Julian Goodare 5. The Devil and the domestic: witchcraft, quarrels and women's work in Scotland
Lauren Martin 6. Devices and directions: folk healing aspects of witchcraft practice in seventeenth
century Scotland
Joyce Miller 7. Hunting the rich witch in Scotland: high
status witchcraft suspects and their persecutors, 1590
1650
Louise Yeoman 8. Witch
hunting and the Scottish state
Julian Goodare 9. The western witch
hunt of 1697
1700: the last major witch
hunt in Scotland
Michael Wasser 10. The decline and end of Scottish witch
hunting
Brian P. Levack 11. Witch
hunting, witchcraft and witch historiography: England and Scotland compared
James A. Sharpe 12. The last of the witches: the survival of Scottish witch belief
Edward J. Cowan and Lizanne Henderson Further Reading