Author: REGINALD. SCOT
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033018132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
DISCOVERIE OF WITCHCRAFT
Author: REGINALD. SCOT
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033018132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033018132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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England's First Demonologist
Author: Philip C. Almond
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857719815
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
'The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can indure with patience the hand and correction of God.' Reginald Scot, whose words these are, published his remarkable book The Discoverie of Witchcraft in 1584. England's first major work of demonology, witchcraft and the occult, the book was unashamedly sceptical. It is said that so outraged was King James VI of Scotland by the disbelieving nature of Scot's work that, on James' accession to the English throne in 1603, he ordered every copy to be destroyed. Yet for all the anger directed at Scot, and his scorn for Stuart orthodoxy about wiches, the paradox was that his detailed account of sorcery helped strengthen the hold of European demonologies in England while also inspiring the distinctively English tradition of secular magic and conjuring. Scot's influence was considerable. Shakespeare drew on The Discoverie of Witchcraft for his depiction of the witches in Macbeth. So too did fellow-playwright Thomas Middleton in his tragi-comedy The Witch. Recognising Scot's central importance in the history of ideas, Philip Almond places his subject in the febrile context of his age, examines the chief themes of his work and shows why his writings became a sourcebook for aspiring magicians and conjurors for several hundred years. England's First Demonologist makes a notable contribution to a fascinating but unjustly neglected topic in the study of Early Modern England and European intellectual history.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857719815
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
'The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can indure with patience the hand and correction of God.' Reginald Scot, whose words these are, published his remarkable book The Discoverie of Witchcraft in 1584. England's first major work of demonology, witchcraft and the occult, the book was unashamedly sceptical. It is said that so outraged was King James VI of Scotland by the disbelieving nature of Scot's work that, on James' accession to the English throne in 1603, he ordered every copy to be destroyed. Yet for all the anger directed at Scot, and his scorn for Stuart orthodoxy about wiches, the paradox was that his detailed account of sorcery helped strengthen the hold of European demonologies in England while also inspiring the distinctively English tradition of secular magic and conjuring. Scot's influence was considerable. Shakespeare drew on The Discoverie of Witchcraft for his depiction of the witches in Macbeth. So too did fellow-playwright Thomas Middleton in his tragi-comedy The Witch. Recognising Scot's central importance in the history of ideas, Philip Almond places his subject in the febrile context of his age, examines the chief themes of his work and shows why his writings became a sourcebook for aspiring magicians and conjurors for several hundred years. England's First Demonologist makes a notable contribution to a fascinating but unjustly neglected topic in the study of Early Modern England and European intellectual history.
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Author: Reginald Scot
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486260305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
16th-century classic debunks witchcraft but offers remarkable primary source of information on witchcraft, witch trials, practice of the black arts. Introduction by Montague Summers. 17 illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486260305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
16th-century classic debunks witchcraft but offers remarkable primary source of information on witchcraft, witch trials, practice of the black arts. Introduction by Montague Summers. 17 illustrations.
Discoverie of witchcraft. London 1584.
Venomous Tongues
Author: Sandy Bardsley
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812239369
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"The unique contribution of Venomous Tongues lies in its interdisciplinary approach and the way it situates scolding within a broader range of issues specific to the legal and social history of the period."—L. R. Poos, The Catholic University of America
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812239369
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"The unique contribution of Venomous Tongues lies in its interdisciplinary approach and the way it situates scolding within a broader range of issues specific to the legal and social history of the period."—L. R. Poos, The Catholic University of America
A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718
Author: Wallace Notestein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Lancashire Witches
Author: Robert Poole
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719062049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial, which took place in 1612 when ten witches from the forest of Pendle were hanged at Lancaster. A little-known second trial occured in 1633-4, when up to nineteen witches were sentenced to death.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719062049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial, which took place in 1612 when ten witches from the forest of Pendle were hanged at Lancaster. A little-known second trial occured in 1633-4, when up to nineteen witches were sentenced to death.
A Treatise of Witchcraft
Author: Alexander Roberts
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613102321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613102321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
The Witchcraft Sourcebook
Author: Brian P. Levack
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415195063
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
This collection of trial records, laws, treatises, sermons, speeches, woodcuttings, paintings and literary texts illustrates how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches and their activities.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415195063
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
This collection of trial records, laws, treatises, sermons, speeches, woodcuttings, paintings and literary texts illustrates how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches and their activities.
Languages of Witchcraft
Author: Stuart Clark
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 033398529X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it and what was its place in their culture? The new essays in this collection illustrate the latest trends in witchcraft research and in cultural history in general. After three decades in which the social analysis of witchcraft accusations has dominated the subject, they turn instead to its significance and meaning as a cultural phenomenon - to the 'languages' of witchcraft, rather than its causes. As a result, witchcraft seems less startling than it once was, yet more revealing of the world in which it occurred.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 033398529X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it and what was its place in their culture? The new essays in this collection illustrate the latest trends in witchcraft research and in cultural history in general. After three decades in which the social analysis of witchcraft accusations has dominated the subject, they turn instead to its significance and meaning as a cultural phenomenon - to the 'languages' of witchcraft, rather than its causes. As a result, witchcraft seems less startling than it once was, yet more revealing of the world in which it occurred.