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Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture

By Stuart Clark (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
Year
2001
ISBN
978-0-333-79349-7, 978-0-333-98529-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
187 MB (196209784 bytes)
Pages
\248
Time added
2017-11-21 00:00:00
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Description

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Texts of Authority: Witchcraft Accusations and the Demonstration of Truth in Early Modern England....Pages 21-39 Understanding Witchcraft? Accusers’ Stories in Print in Early Modern England....Pages 41-54 Witches and Witnesses in Old and New England....Pages 55-80 Sounds of Silence: Fairies and Incest in Scottish Witchcraft Stories....Pages 81-98 Front Matter....Pages 99-99 Towards a Politics of Witchcraft in Early Modern England....Pages 101-118 Reginald Scot / Abraham Fleming / The Family of Love....Pages 119-138 Hell upon Earth or the Language of the Playhouse....Pages 139-158 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 Circling the Devil: Witch-Doctors and Magical Healers in Early Modern Lorraine....Pages 161-178 Witchcraft as Metaphor: Infanticide and its Translations in Aragón in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries....Pages 179-195 Witchcraft and Forensic Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Germany....Pages 197-215 Reasoning with Unreason: Visions, Witchcraft, and Madness in Early Modern England....Pages 217-236 Back Matter....Pages 237-241

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