Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750Marion Gibson A&C Black, 12.10.2006 - 284 Seiten A unique collection of materials, including works of literature as well as historical documents, Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 provides a broad view of how witches and magicians were represented in print and manuscript over three centuries. It combines newly annotated selections from famous texts, such as Macbeth, Doctor Faustus, and The Faerie Queene with unjustly obscure ones: portrayals of witchcraft and magic from private papers, court records, and little-known works of fiction. In this rich, broad context, Marion Gibson presents the voices of witches, accusers, ministers, physicians, poets, dramatists, magistrates, and witchfinders from both sides of the Atlantic. Each text is introduced with a short essay and fully annotated to explain unfamiliar words and concepts, give biographical details of participants and/or authors, and explore the context in which the text was produced. |
Inhalt
Witchcraft in the courts | 1 |
Witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England | 19 |
English demonologies | 61 |
Stage and page witches in literature | 97 |
Possession the devil and the witch | 155 |
Learned men and magic | 171 |
Magic and money two tricksters | 193 |
Witchcraft in America | 207 |
Decline and change Restoration to eighteenth century | 227 |
Select bibliography and further reading | 251 |
263 | |
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Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 Marion Gibson Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2003 |
Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 Marion Gibson Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2003 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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