Marion Gibson

Reading Witchcraft (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this original study of witchcraft, Gibson explores the stories told by and about witches and their 'victims' through trial records, early news books, pamphlets and fascinating personal accounts. The author discusses the issues surrounding the interpretation of original historical sources and demonstrates that their representations of witchcraft are far from straight forward or reliable. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book sheds new light on early modern people's responses to witches and on the sometimes bizarre flexibility of the human imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134624867
• Artikelnr.: 38265123

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?'