Witchfinders - A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy

Informationen zum Autor Malcolm Gaskill is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, where he is Director of Studies in History. Klappentext In 1645, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne exploited the anxiety and lawlessness of the time and initiated a brutal campaign to drive out the presumed evil in their midst. Gaskill recounts the most savage witch-hunt in English history. By the fall of 1647 at least 250 people had been captured, interrogated, and tried, with more than 100 hanged. Zusammenfassung In 1645, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne exploited the anxiety and lawlessness of the time and initiated a brutal campaign to drive out the presumed evil in their midst. Gaskill recounts the most savage witch-hunt in English history. By the fall of 1647 at least 250 people had been captured, interrogated, and tried, with more than 100 hanged. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations Preface Author's Note Map Prologue Part One: Complication 1. Origins 2. Strange Effects 3. The Initiation 4. Dark Horizons 5. First Blood Part Two: Unravelling 6. Malignants 7. Hellish Invention 8. Contagion 9. Sticklers 10. The Biter Bit Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: Malcolm Gaskill
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2007
• EAN: 9780674025424
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02542-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.), Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Witchcraft (see also RELIGION / Wicca), History - General History