The Lancashire witches: Histories and storiesRobert Poole Manchester University Press, 19 lip 2013 - 240 This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. The book has equal appeal across the disciplines of both History and English Literature/Renaissance Studies, with essays by the leading experts in both fields. Includes helpful summaries to explain the key points of each essay. Brings the subject up-to-date with a study of modern Wicca and paganism, including present-day Lancashire witches. Quite simply, this is the most comprehensive study of any English witch trial. |
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... hand information into a third - hand statement . Yet , when all due allowance is made for such problems , the records do provide a rich vein for those exploring early modern witchcraft beliefs . Behind all this there lies the issue of ...
... hand information into a third - hand statement . Yet , when all due allowance is made for such problems , the records do provide a rich vein for those exploring early modern witchcraft beliefs . Behind all this there lies the issue of ...
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... hands of witches . The breakthrough in both cases came when Roger Nowell , the Pendle magistrate , extracted from the two child witnesses , James and Jennet Device , a string of allegations , and it was this evidence above all that ...
... hands of witches . The breakthrough in both cases came when Roger Nowell , the Pendle magistrate , extracted from the two child witnesses , James and Jennet Device , a string of allegations , and it was this evidence above all that ...
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... hand , and accused her ' . When Jennet subsequently declined to incriminate a name invented by Bromley , Potts concluded , with a nod to the forthcoming evidence of Grace Sowerbutts , that ' [ t ] his could be no forged or false ...
... hand , and accused her ' . When Jennet subsequently declined to incriminate a name invented by Bromley , Potts concluded , with a nod to the forthcoming evidence of Grace Sowerbutts , that ' [ t ] his could be no forged or false ...
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... hands , he was still hanging witches in 1618.63 And what of Potts , our notional author ? The normal aspiration for a humble clerk of the court without university training would have been slow promotion to Clerk of the Assize . But ...
... hands , he was still hanging witches in 1618.63 And what of Potts , our notional author ? The normal aspiration for a humble clerk of the court without university training would have been slow promotion to Clerk of the Assize . But ...
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... hand by ' recorders ' of events , overcoming our own and others ' culturally con- ditioned assumptions about past ( and present ) societies , and dissecting bodies of hotly disputed and often contradictory evidence about a crime most ...
... hand by ' recorders ' of events , overcoming our own and others ' culturally con- ditioned assumptions about past ( and present ) societies , and dissecting bodies of hotly disputed and often contradictory evidence about a crime most ...
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family dynamics in the Pendle | 58 |
The Reformation in the parish of Whalley | 88 |
the lost Lancashire witches | 105 |
Richard Wilson | 126 |
Sexual and spiritual politics in the events of 163334 | 146 |
The Lancashire novelist and the Lancashire witches | 166 |
contemporary witchcraft | 188 |
Bibliography | 204 |
Index | 219 |
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