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Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the
Devil in English witchcraft pamphlets for the entire period of
state-sanctioned witchcraft prosecutions (1563-1735). It provides a
rereading of English witchcraft, one which moves away from an older
historiography which underplays the role of the Devil in English
witchcraft and instead highlights the crucial role that the Devil,
often in the form of a familiar spirit, took in English witchcraft
belief. One of the key ways in which this book explores the role of
the Devil is through emotions. Stories of witches were made up of a
complex web of emotionally implicated accusers, victims, witnesses,
and supposed perpetrators. They reveal a range of emotional
experiences that do not just stem from malefic witchcraft but also,
and primarily, from a witch's links with the Devil. This book,
then, has two main objectives. First, to suggest that English
witchcraft pamphlets challenge our understanding of English
witchcraft as a predominantly non-diabolical crime, and second, to
highlight how witchcraft narratives emphasized emotions as the
primary motivation for witchcraft acts and accusations.
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