Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London - Eedward Jorden and the Mary Glover Case

Informationen zum Autor Michael MacDonald Klappentext Obsession with witchcraft was at its height in Elizabethan London. Edward Jorden, who has been hailed as one of the earliest champions of rational scepticism, was a heroic figure who perceived that the symptoms his credulous contemporaries attributed to witchcraft were actually the effects of hysteria. His "Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother" (1603) is said to have reclaimed the demoniacally possessed for medicine and to have introduced the concept of hysteria into English psychiatry. In his introduction, Michael MacDonald provides a fresh and realistic analysis of the politics of credulity and scepticism in early modern England and Jorden's part in them. Zusammenfassung Reassesses and sets in its historical context Jorden's famous pamphlet. In his introduction, Michael MacDonald provides an analysis of the politics of credulity and scepticism in early modern England and Jorden's part in them. Inhaltsverzeichnis THIS IS SELECT CONTENTS

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• Authors: Edward Jorden, M. Macdonald, Michael MacDonald, MacDonald Michael, John Swan
• Assisted by: Michael MacDonald (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.1990
• EAN: 9780415017886
• ISBN: 978-0-415-01788-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Publications Du Cidss; Tavistock Classic Reprints in the History of Psychiatry; Tavistock Classic Reprints in the History of Psychiatry
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; England, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural 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