Scott Eaton

John Stearne's Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft

Text, Context and Afterlife

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first study which analyses John Stearne's publication A confirmation and discovery of witchcraft. It contextualises his ideas within early modern intellectual cultures of religion, demonology, gender, science, and print in order to better understand the witch-finder's beliefs and motives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780367894047
• ISBN-10: 0367894041
• Artikelnr.: 59843867

Autorenporträt

Scott Eaton teaches history at Queen's University Belfast. He is a religious and cultural historian, with a particular interest in early modern witchcraft, magic, art, and print cultures.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The background of the East Anglian witch-hunt: the economy,
courts, religion and the beginnings of the trials 2. Puritanism: a
comparison of Stearne's religious beliefs to the orthodoxy of the
Westminster Assembly's Confession of faith 3. Print culture: the literature
of the supernatural and the reception of A confirmation 4. Familiar
spirits: the origins of Stearne's concept of familiars and its symbolisms
5. Witchcraft, sex and gender: witchcraft confessions in A confirmation as
a reflection of seventeenth-century gender roles 6. Science and the decline
of witchcraft beliefs: evidence for the scientific basis of Stearne's
witch-finding 7. The afterlife of A confirmation: the circulation and
rediscovery of Stearne's text in the nineteenth century Conclusion