Andrew Sneddon

Possessed By the Devil (eBook, ePUB)

The Real History of the Islandmagee Witches and Ireland's Only Mass Witchcraft Trial

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1711, in County Antrim, eight women were put on trial accused of orchestrating the demonic possession of young Mary Dunbar, and the haunting and supernatural murder of a local clergyman's wife. Mary Dunbar was the star witness in this trial, and the women were, by the standards of teh time, believeable witches - they smoke, they drank, they just did not look right. With echoes of Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible', and in fact Mary Dunbar repeated many of the reports from the Salem Witch-trials word for word in court, this is a story of murder, of hysteria, and of how the 'witch craze' that claimed over 400,000 lives in Europe played out on Irish shores.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press LTD
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752480879
• Artikelnr.: 38397630

Autorenporträt

Dr Andrew Sneddon has a BA (hons) in History and Literature from the University of Hertfordshire and and M.Litt in Historical Research from the University of St Andrews, with a dissertation on English witchcraft, 1586-1718. His PhD was awarded by Lancaster University for a thesis on witchcraft writer, 'improver', and religious controversialist, Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660-1739). Towards the end of this research he taught early modern history and study skills at the University of Glasgow. He then became an archivist at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), before being appointed Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Trust funded, Irish Legislation Project, at Queen's University, Belfast. In 2007, he was appointed Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, to explore eighteenth-century institutional medicine. The following year, he joined the history department of the University of Ulster, Coleraine as lecturer. He has given papers and invited lectures all over the world and has published widely.