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archival sources on witchcraft
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cultural history of belief in magic
early modern belief systems
early modern English magic
early modern Europe superstition studies
early modern legal definitions of witchcraft
Elizabethan cultural studies
Elizabethan witchcraft studies
English and Continental magic comparison
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folklore and superstition studies
gender and witchcraft
historical accounts of witchcraft
historical criminology of magic
historical demonology
historical folklore and magic
historical law and witch trials
historical magical practitioners
historical pamphlet analysis
historical superstition documentation
historical witch trials
Jacobean magical practices
Jacobean occult history
legal history of witchcraft
magical beliefs and practices
magical ritual practices
modernized historical texts
occult documentation in England
occult practices in early modern Europe
primary source analysis for scholars
primary sources for early modern witchcraft
punishment of witches and wizards
religious influence on witchcraft beliefs
scholarly annotated editions
social context of witchcraft
supernatural beliefs in Elizabethan society
supernatural law enforcement
superstition and social control
superstition in seventeenth century England
superstition in sixteenth century England
trial documents and reports
wise women and cunning folk
witch persecution in England
witchcraft historiography
witchcraft interpretation and punishment
witchcraft pamphlet collections
Product details
- ISBN 9780870237539
- Weight: 514g
- Dimensions: 141 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 1991
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Barbara Rosen has gathered and edited a collection of documents - pamphlets, reports, trial accounts, and other material - that describes the experience, interpretation and punishment of witchcraft in the late 16th and early 17th 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. Originally published in England in 1970 under the title ""Witchcraft"", this book appears now for the first time in paperback and includes a new preface by the editor.
