Buch, Englisch, Band 131, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 252 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 572 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 131, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 252 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 572 g
Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
ISBN: 978-90-04-16528-1
Verlag: Brill
Contributors include: Jonathan Barry, Jo Bath, Roy Booth, Chris Brooks, Owen Davies, Malcolm Gaskill, Marion Gibson, Clive Holmes, P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, John Newton, and Tom Webster.
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List of Contributors
1. Introduction: Witchcraft, Witch Codes, Witch Act, John Newton
PART I. THE NEW KING AND THE CRUCIBLE OF THE ACT
2. King James’s Experience of Witches, and the 1604 English Witchcraft Act, P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
3. Standing within the Prospect of Belief: Macbeth, King James, and Witchcraft, Roy Booth
4. Witchcraft and Possession at the Accession of James I: The Publication of Samuel Harsnett’s Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures, Clive Holmes
5. (Re)possession of Dispossession: John Darrell and Diabolical Discourse, Tom Webster
PART II. ENGLAND UNDER THE ACT
6. Applying the Act of 1604: Witches in Essex, Northamptonshire and Lancashire, Marion Gibson
7. The Treatment of Potential Witches in North-East England, c. 1649-1680, Jo Bath
8. Witchcraft and Stage Spectacle: Spectacular Witches after 1604, Chris Brooks
9. Witchcraft, Emotion and Imagination in the English Civil War, Malcolm Gaskill
PART III. THE PASSING OF THE ACT
10. The Politics of Pandaemonium, Jonathan Barry
11. Decriminalising the Witch: The Origin of and Response to the 1736 Witchcraft Act, Owen Davis
Appendix I. The Witchcraft Act of 1563 (5 Eliz I, c.16.)
Appendix II. The Witchcraft Act of 1604 (1 Jas. I, c. 12.)
Appendix III. Canon 72 of the Church of England (1604)
Appendix IV. The Witchcraft Act of 1736 (9 Geo. II, c. 5.)
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