Lancashire Witches - Histories and Stories

Informationen zum Autor Robert Poole is Reader in History at St. Martin's College, Lancaster Klappentext This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. Zusammenfassung This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface - Robert PooleAcknowledgements1. Introduction: the Lancashire witches in historical context - James SharpeI. THE TRIALS OF 16122. Potts, plots and politics: James I's Daemonologie and The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches - Stephen Pumfrey3. Thomas Potts's 'dusty memory': reconstructing justice in The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches - Marion Gibson4. 'Those to whom evil is done': family dynamics in the Pendle witch trials - Jonathan LumbyII. CONTEXTS: SOCIETY, ECONOMY, RELIGION AND MAGIC5. Witchcraft, economy and society in the forest of Pendle - John Swain6. The Reformation in the parish of Whalley - Michael Mullett7. Beyond Pendle: the 'lost' Lancashire witches - Kirsteen Macpherson BardellIII. REWRITING THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES8. The pilot's thumb: Macbeth and the Jesuits - Richard Wilson9. The Late Lancashire Witches: sexual and spiritual politics in the events of 1633-4 - Alison Findlay10. The 'Lancashire novelist' and the Lancashire witches - Jeffrey Richards11. Wicca, paganism, and history: contemporary witchcraft and the Lancashire witches - Joanne PearsonBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Robert Poole
• Assisted by: Robert Poole (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2003
• EAN: 9780719062049
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6204-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, Lancashire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Witchcraft, RELIGION / Wicca, HISTORY / Social History, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Gender studies: women and girls, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700