Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A Regional and Comparative StudyPsychology Press, 1999 - 334 páginas This is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The history of witchcraft continues to attract attention with its emotive and contentious debates. The methodology and conclusions of this book have impacted not only on witchcraft studies but the entire approach to social and cultural history with its quantitative and anthropological approach. The book provides an important case study on Essex as well as drawing comparisons with other regions of early modern England. |
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Problems and sources in the study of witchcraft | 3 |
The legal background to witchcraft prosecutions at the secular | 14 |
evidence from Assize | 23 |
Witchcraft accusations in other legal courts | 66 |
Literary sources for the study of witchcraft | 81 |
The background to witchcraft prosecutions in three Essex | 94 |
Informal counteraction against witchcraft | 103 |
Cunning folk and witchcraft prosecutions | 115 |
personality | 158 |
kin | 168 |
Witchcraft prosecutions and illness | 178 |
Witchcraft prosecutions and religion | 186 |
Witchcraft beliefs as an explanation of suffering and a means | 192 |
Reasons for the rise and decline of witchcraft prosecutions | 200 |
ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES | 209 |
Some anthropological interpretations of witchcraft | 240 |
The witchfinding movement of 1645 in Essex | 135 |
WITCHCRAFT AND THE SOCIAL BACKGROUND | 145 |
APPENDICES | 254 |
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Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A Regional and Comparative Study Alan Macfarlane Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
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