Ivan Bunn, Gilbert Geis

A Trial of Witches (eBook, PDF)

A Seventeenth Century Witchcraft Prosecution

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'An excellent microhistory ... sensational, the characters are strongly marked and include leading personalities in law, religion and medicine - a good story, well told from extensive and minute primary research' - Ronald Hutton

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134696338
• Artikelnr.: 42726380

Autorenporträt

Ivan Bunn, Gilbert Geis

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Part I - The Case 1. Witchcrafts Here Resemble
Witchcrafts There 2. The Toad in the Blanket 3. The Swouning Sisters 4.
Lice of Extraordinary Bigness Part II - What Might It Mean? 5. Wrinkled
Face, Furrowed Brow, and Gobber Tooth 6. Does Assue action Minorate
Atrocities? 7. Devotionair and Moralist 8. An Age of So Much Knowledge and
Confidence Part III - Post Mortem 9. A Matter of Adicopere Appendix A A
Tryal of Witches

Rezensionen

'In addition to its value as a historic record, this book offers a tragic lesson in the extraordinary willingness of people to rely uncritically on tainted information and do awful things.' - Publishers Weekly, December 1997

'In addition to its value as a historic record, this book offers a tragic lesson in the extraordinary willingness of people to rely uncritically on tainted information and do awful things.' - Publishers Weekly, December 1997