Richard Godbeer

The Devil's Dominion

Magic and Religion in Early New England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed look at the folk magic used by settlers in early New England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521466707
• ISBN-10: 0521466709
• Artikelnr.: 22124885

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. 'Magical experiments': divining, healing and destroying in seventeenth-century New England
2. 'The serpent that lies in the grass unseen': clerical and lay opposition to magic
3. 'Entertaining Satan': sin, suffering, and countermagic
4. 'Sinful curiosity': astrological discourse in early New England
5. 'Insufficient grounds for conviction': witchcraft, the courts, and countermagic
6. 'Rape of a whole colony': the 1692 witch-hunt
Epilogue
Appendices.