The Lancashire witches (eBook, ePUB)

Histories and stories
Redaktion: Poole, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. The book has equal appeal across the disciplines of both History and English Literature/Renaissance Studies, with essays by the leading experts in both fields. Includes helpful summaries to explain the key points of each essay. Brings the subject up-to-date with a study of modern Wicca and paganism, including present-day Lancashire witches. Quite simply, this is the most comprehensive study of any English witch trial.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847795496
• Artikelnr.: 44054641

Autorenporträt

Robert Poole is Reader in History at St. Martin's College, Lancaster

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - Robert Poole Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: the Lancashire
witches in historical context - James Sharpe I. THE TRIALS OF 1612 2.
Potts, plots and politics: James I's Daemonologie and The Wonderfull
Discoverie of Witches - Stephen Pumfrey 3. Thomas Potts's 'dusty memory':
reconstructing justice in The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches - Marion
Gibson 4. 'Those to whom evil is done': family dynamics in the Pendle witch
trials - Jonathan Lumby II. CONTEXTS: SOCIETY, ECONOMY, RELIGION AND MAGIC
5. Witchcraft, economy and society in the forest of Pendle - John Swain 6.
The Reformation in the parish of Whalley - Michael Mullett 7. Beyond
Pendle: the 'lost' Lancashire witches - Kirsteen Macpherson Bardell III.
REWRITING THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES 8. The pilot's thumb: Macbeth and the
Jesuits - Richard Wilson 9. The Late Lancashire Witches: sexual and
spiritual politics in the events of 1633-4 - Alison Findlay 10. The
'Lancashire novelist' and the Lancashire witches - Jeffrey Richards 11.
Wicca, paganism, and history: contemporary witchcraft and the Lancashire
witches - Joanne Pearson Bibliography