Title
Witchcraft, witch-hunting, and politics in early modern England [electronic resource] / Peter Elmer.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191787201 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 369 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198717720 doi
Call Number
BF1581 .E46 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
133.4309420903
Summary
A wide-ranging overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of archives, both local and national, it seeks to relate the rise and decline of belief in witchcraft, alongside the legal prosecution of witches, to the wider political culture of the period. Building on the seminal work of scholars such as Stuart Clark, Ian Bostridge, and Jonathan Barry, it demonstrates how learned discussion of witchcraft, as well as the trials of those suspected of the crime, were shaped by religious and political imperatives in that period.
Note
A wide-ranging overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of archives, both local and national, it seeks to relate the rise and decline of belief in witchcraft, alongside the legal prosecution of witches, to the wider political culture of the period. Building on the seminal work of scholars such as Stuart Clark, Ian Bostridge, and Jonathan Barry, it demonstrates how learned discussion of witchcraft, as well as the trials of those suspected of the crime, were shaped by religious and political imperatives in that period.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
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, 1649-1660
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.
