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- catalog abstract "Anyone interested in manifestations of witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England will find this book an invaluable source. Barbara Rosen has gathered and edited a rare collection of documents--pamphlets, reports, trial accounts, and other material--that describes the experience, interpretation, and punishment of witchcraft in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In her introduction, Rosen explores the full range of practices and beliefs associated with witchcraft and situates these phenomena in historical context. She explains how ignorance of science and medicine combined with social circumstance and religious ideology to shape popular perceptions and superstitions. Distinguishing between English and Continental forms of witchcraft, she also examines the legal definitions, disciplines, and punishments applied to wizards, witches, wise women, and conjurers in the Elizabethan age. The pamphlets and other original texts have been modernized in certain respects to make them more accessible to general readers. But the book retains its value for scholars: omissions are detailed in the notes and additions marked; obsolete words and grammar are explained in the glossary.".
- catalog alternative "Witchcraft.".
- catalog contributor b3265316.
- catalog created "1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1991.".
- catalog description "Anyone interested in manifestations of witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England will find this book an invaluable source. Barbara Rosen has gathered and edited a rare collection of documents--pamphlets, reports, trial accounts, and other material--that describes the experience, interpretation, and punishment of witchcraft in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In her introduction, Rosen explores the full range of practices and beliefs associated with witchcraft and situates these phenomena in historical context. She explains how ignorance of science and medicine combined with social circumstance and religious ideology to shape popular perceptions and superstitions. Distinguishing between English and Continental forms of witchcraft, she also examines the legal definitions, disciplines, and punishments applied to wizards, witches, wise women, and conjurers in the Elizabethan age. The pamphlets and other original texts have been modernized in certain respects to make them more accessible to general readers. But the book retains its value for scholars: omissions are detailed in the notes and additions marked; obsolete words and grammar are explained in the glossary.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog description "Preface to the Paperback Edition -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction -- Witchcraft -- Laws and Punishments -- II. Early Days -- Fault in the Stars -- Witches and Fairies -- Witches at Chelmsford -- Witches at Windsor -- Chelmsford Witches Again -- III. Law Tricks -- Witches at St. Osyth -- A Comment on Evidence -- A Comment on Method -- A Miscarriage of Justice -- IV. Thick-Coming Fancies -- Cautionary Tales -- More Executions at Chelmsford -- Witches' Sabbath -- Aerial Adventures of Richard Burt -- V. Changing Times: The Tricksters -- The Fairy Queen in Hampshire -- A Country Gentleman -- Success Story -- VI. Possession -- The Devil in the Nursery -- a) The disclosing of a late counterfeyted possession -- b) The...three Witches of Warboys -- The Devil at Large -- VII. Deaths and Sentences -- Death of an Earl -- Death of a Queen -- Opinions of a Judge -- Witches Abroad316 -- The Witch in the Alehouse -- VIII. Jacobean Style -- The Swimming Test -- Northhamptonshire Witches -- Lancashire Witches -- Malice and Maleficium -- Select Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index of Familiars -- Index of Persons -- Index of Places".
- catalog extent "xvi, 407 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Witchcraft in England, 1558-1618.".
- catalog identifier "0870237535 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Witchcraft in England, 1558-1618.".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press,".
- catalog relation "Witchcraft in England, 1558-1618.".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "133.4/3/094209031 20".
- catalog subject "BF1581 .W79 1991".
- catalog subject "Witchcraft England.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface to the Paperback Edition -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction -- Witchcraft -- Laws and Punishments -- II. Early Days -- Fault in the Stars -- Witches and Fairies -- Witches at Chelmsford -- Witches at Windsor -- Chelmsford Witches Again -- III. Law Tricks -- Witches at St. Osyth -- A Comment on Evidence -- A Comment on Method -- A Miscarriage of Justice -- IV. Thick-Coming Fancies -- Cautionary Tales -- More Executions at Chelmsford -- Witches' Sabbath -- Aerial Adventures of Richard Burt -- V. Changing Times: The Tricksters -- The Fairy Queen in Hampshire -- A Country Gentleman -- Success Story -- VI. Possession -- The Devil in the Nursery -- a) The disclosing of a late counterfeyted possession -- b) The...three Witches of Warboys -- The Devil at Large -- VII. Deaths and Sentences -- Death of an Earl -- Death of a Queen -- Opinions of a Judge -- Witches Abroad316 -- The Witch in the Alehouse -- VIII. Jacobean Style -- The Swimming Test -- Northhamptonshire Witches -- Lancashire Witches -- Malice and Maleficium -- Select Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index of Familiars -- Index of Persons -- Index of Places".
- catalog title "Witchcraft in England, 1558-1618 / edited by Barbara Rosen.".
- catalog type "text".