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Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England
constitutes a wide-ranging and original overview of the place of
witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern
England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of
archives, both local and national, it seeks to relate the rise and
decline of belief in witchcraft, alongside the legal prosecution of
witches, to the wider political culture of the period. Building on
the seminal work of scholars such as Stuart Clark, Ian Bostridge,
and Jonathan Barry, Peter Elmer demonstrates how learned discussion
of witchcraft, as well as the trials of those suspected of the
crime, were shaped by religious and political imperatives in the
period from the passage of the witchcraft statute of 1563 to the
repeal of the various laws on witchcraft. In the process, Elmer
sheds new light upon various issues relating to the role of
witchcraft in English society, including the problematic
relationship between puritanism and witchcraft as well as the
process of decline.
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