Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England

Zusatztext Meticulously researched, this is a must read for students of witchcraft and early modern society in general ... Essential. Informationen zum Autor Peter Elmer studied for his doctoral dissertation under Stuart Clark at Swansea University, working on the religious origins of medical reform in seventeenth-century England. He taught for seventeen years at the Open University, and in 2012 was appointed as Senior Research Fellow at Exeter University, where he currently works with a group of colleagues on a Wellcome Trust funded project designed to create a database of medical practitioners in early modern England, Wales, and Ireland. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung An original overview of witchcraft and witch-hunting in early modern England, from the first witch trials early in Elizabeth I's reign to the repeal of the Witchcraft Statute in 1736, demonstrating how learned discussion of witchcraft, as well as the trials of those suspected of the crime, were shaped by religious and political imperatives. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Witchcraft, Religion, and the State in Elizabethan and Jacobean England 3: Witchcraft in an Age of Rebellion, 1625-1649 4: Witchcraft in an Age of Political Uncertainty: Interregnum England, 1649-60 5: Redrawing the Boundaries of the Confessional State: Witchcraft, Dissent, and Latitudinarianism in Restoration England 6: 'Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft': Anglicanism, the State, and the Decline of Witchcraft in Restoration England 7: Witchcraft, Enthusiasm, and the Rage of Party: the Politics of Decline in Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century England Bibliography

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter Elmer, Peter (Senior Research Fellow Elmer
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 14.01.2016
• EAN: 9780198717720
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871772-0
• Seiten: 384
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Mittelalter; England, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, European History, Witchcraft, RELIGION / Wicca, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, History - General History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700