Brian P. Levack

Witch-Hunting in Scotland (eBook, ePUB)

Law, Politics and Religion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Witch-Hunting in Scotland presents a fresh perspective on the trial and execution of the hundreds of women and men prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft in Scotland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429603907
• Artikelnr.: 57156718

Autorenporträt

Brian P. Levack is the John Green Regents Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications on the history of witchcraft include The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd ed., 2006), The Witchcraft Sourcebook (2004) and Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Witch
Hunting in Scotland and England 2. Witchcraft and the Law in Early Modern Scotland 3. King James VI and Witchcraft 4. Witch
Hunting in Revolutionary Britain 5. The Great Scottish Witch
Hunt of 1661
1662 6. Absolutism, State
Building, and Witchcraft 7. Demonic Possession and Witch
Hunting in Scotland 8. The Decline and End of Scottish Witch
Hunting 9. Witch
Hunting and Witch
Murder in Early Eighteenth
Century Scotland