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Languages of witchcraft : narrative, ideology and meaning in early modern culture / edited by Stuart Clark.

Contributor(s): Clark, Stuart
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2001Description: xiii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0333793498 (Macmillan : pbk.); 033379348X (Macmillan); 0312238126 (St.Martin's); 0312238134 (St.Martin's : pbk.)Subject(s): Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- Congresses | Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses | Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 18th century -- CongressesDDC classification: 133.4/3 LOC classification: BF1584.E85 | L36 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Texts of authority: witchcraft accusations and the demonstration of truth in early modern England / Peter Rushton -- Understanding witchcraft? accusers' stories in print in early modern England / Marion Gibson -- Witches and witnesses in old and New England / Malcolm Gaskill -- Sounds of silence: fairies and incest in Scottish witchcraft stories / Diane Purkiss -- Towards a politics of witchcraft in early modern England / Peter Elmer -- Reginald Scot, Abraham Fleming, the family of love / David Wootton -- Hell upon earth or the language of the playhouse / Jonathan Barry -- Circling the devil: witch-doctors and magical healers in early modern Lorraine / Robin Briggs -- Witchcraft as metaphor: infanticide and its translations in Aragón in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / María Tausiet -- Witchcraft and forensic medicine in seventeenth-century Germany / Thomas Robisheaux -- Reasoning with unreason: visions, witchcraft, and madness in early modern England / Katharine Hodgkin.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BF1584.E85 L36 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902294012

Texts of authority: witchcraft accusations and the demonstration of truth in early modern England / Peter Rushton -- Understanding witchcraft? accusers' stories in print in early modern England / Marion Gibson -- Witches and witnesses in old and New England / Malcolm Gaskill -- Sounds of silence: fairies and incest in Scottish witchcraft stories / Diane Purkiss -- Towards a politics of witchcraft in early modern England / Peter Elmer -- Reginald Scot, Abraham Fleming, the family of love / David Wootton -- Hell upon earth or the language of the playhouse / Jonathan Barry -- Circling the devil: witch-doctors and magical healers in early modern Lorraine / Robin Briggs -- Witchcraft as metaphor: infanticide and its translations in Aragón in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / María Tausiet -- Witchcraft and forensic medicine in seventeenth-century Germany / Thomas Robisheaux -- Reasoning with unreason: visions, witchcraft, and madness in early modern England / Katharine Hodgkin.

Papers from a conference held in Sept. 1998 by the History Department of the University of Wales, Swansea.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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