Orna Alyagon Darr

Marks of an Absolute Witch (eBook, ePUB)

Evidentiary Dilemmas in Early Modern England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the crime of witchcraft in early modern England, this book focuses on legal questions of proof. As a capital crime - yet one that was uniquely difficult to prove - witchcraft investigations and trials offer a fascinating lens through which to observe social and judicial attitudes towards crime, punishment and evidentiary standards. The witchcraft debate took place within the formative era of modern evidence law, and the book highlights the mutual influences between the witch trials and major legal developments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317100386
• Artikelnr.: 45093088

Autorenporträt

Orna Alyagon Darr, Carmel Academic Center Law School, Israel

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Pre-trial Procedure
2: Trial Procedure
3: Circumstantial Evidence
4: Ritual Acts and Artefacts of Witchcraft
5: The Devil's Mark
6: Imps
7: The Swimming Test
8: Scratching
9: Supernatural Evidentiary Techniques as Experiments
10: Judicial Assessment of Narratives and Statements
11: Searching for Reliable Testimony
12: Confession
Conclusions