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1 online resource (xi, 248 pages) |
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Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 131 |
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Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 131.
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| Contents |
Witchcraft, witch codes, witch act / King James's experience of witches, and the 1604 English Witchcraft Act / Standing within the prospect of belief : Macbeth, King James, and witchcraft / Witchcraft and possession at the accession of James I : the publication of Samuel Harsnett's Declaration of egregious popish impostures / (Re)possession of dispossession : John Darrell and diabolical discourse / Applying the act of 1604 : witches in Essex, Northamptonshire and Lancashire / The treatment of potential witches in north-east England, c. 1649-1680 / Witchcraft and stage spectacle : spectacular witches after 1604 / Witchcraft, emotion and imagination in the English Civil War / The politics of Pandaemonium / Decriminalising the witch : the origin of and response to the 1736 Witchcraft Act / The Witchcraft Act of 1563 (5 Eliz I, c. 16) -- The Witchcraft Act of 1604 (1 Jas. I, c. 12) -- Canon 72 of the Church of England (1604) -- The Witchcraft Act of 1736 (9 Geo. II, c. 5). John Newton -- P.G. Maxwell-Stuart -- Roy Booth -- Clive Holmes -- Tom Webster -- Marion Gibson -- Jo Bath -- Chris Brooks -- Malcolm Gaskill -- Jonathan Barry -- Owen Davies |
| Summary |
This volume examines both the events that shaped the Jacobean Witchcraft Act, and its subsequent impact on the culture and society of seventeenth-century England until its repeal in 1736 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Great Britain. Act against conjuration, witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked spirits -- Congresses
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| SUBJECT |
Act against conjuration, witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked spirits (Great Britain) fast |
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Witchcraft -- England -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Witchcraft
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Hexenglaube
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Hexenverfolgung
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England
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England
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bath, Jo
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Newton, John, 1973-
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| ISBN |
9789047432944 |
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9047432940 |
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