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