| Description |
1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft |
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Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft
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| Contents |
Cover; Four Centuries of Witch-Beliefs: With special reference to the Great Rebellion; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Chapter I. The Growth of Witch-mania in Europe at the End of the Middle Ages; Chapter II. The Introduction of Continental Witch-beliefs into England; Chapter III. The First Period of the Great Witch-scare: 1588-1618; Chapter IV. James I's Renunciation of His Belief in Witchcraft; Chapter V. The Attempts of James I and Charles I to Extinguish Witch-mania (1618-42); Chapter VI. Indignation Aroused by the Protection of Witches; Chapter VII. Parliament and Witchcraft, 1625-49 |
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Chapter VIII. The Second Period of the Great Witch Scare:1642-9Chapter IX. Oliver Cromwell and Witchcraft; Chapter X. Conclusion; Bibliograph; Index |
| Notes |
Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and Stuart statesmen, ask whether witchcraft was of any importance in seventeenth-century English history, or even influenced the Great Rebellion. The reader is placed in possession of the more pertinent passages from the arguments used to support or discredit belief in witchcraft |
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Print version record |
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Witchcraft -- England
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Witchcraft -- England -- History
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Occultism -- England -- History
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Occultism
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Witchcraft
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England
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203818985 |
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0203818989 |
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