Marion Gibson

Early Modern Witches

Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The sixteen examples collected here describe fifteen English witchcraft cases in detail, vividly recreating events to give the reader the illusion of actually being present at witchcraft accusations, trials and hangings. But how much are we, as readers, victims of literary manipulation by the authors of these texts, and by accusers, magistrates and witches themselves? Some of the writing collected here appear in print for the first time in three centuries, while others are newly edited to give a clearer picture of sources, generic developments in writing about witchcraft, the chronologies of cases, and the biographies of the people who are trying to tell us their stories. "Early Modern Witches" provides fascinaing insight into both the history of witchcraft and the very thread of cultural history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9780415215794
• ISBN-10: 041521579X
• Artikelnr.: 21591543

Autorenporträt

Marion Gibson

Inhaltsangabe

Sources for students, Introduction 1 The Examination and Confession of
certaine Wytches (1566) 2 The Examination of John Walsh (1566) 3 A
Rehearsall both straung and true (1579) 4 A Detection of damnable driftes
(1579) 5 Richard Galis, A brief treatise (1579) 6 W.W., A true and just
Recorde (1582) 7 The severall factes of Witch-crafte (1585) 8 The
Apprehension and confession of three notorious Witches (1589) 9 A Most
Wicked worke of a wretched Witch (1592) 10 'A memoriall of certaine most
notorious witches' (1595) 11 'The severall practises of Johane Harrison and
her daughter' (1606) Conception and pregnancy 12 The Witches of
Northamptonshire (1612) 13 Thomas Potts, The Wonderfull Discoverie of
Witches (1612) 14 Witches Apprehended (1613) 15 The Wonderful Discovery of
the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower (1619) 16 Henry Goodcole,
The wonderfull discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer, a Witch (1621)