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England's First Demonologist - Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft' (Paperback)
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England's First Demonologist - Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft' (Paperback)
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'The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in
the heart of man, that few or none can indure with patience the
hand and correction of God.' Reginald Scot, whose words these are,
published his remarkable book The Discoverie of Witchcraft in 1584.
England's first major work of demonology, witchcraft and the
occult, the book was unashamedly sceptical. It is said that so
outraged was King James VI of Scotland by the disbelieving nature
of Scot's work that, on James' accession to the English throne in
1603, he ordered every copy to be destroyed. Yet for all the anger
directed at Scot, and his scorn for Stuart orthodoxy about wiches,
the paradox was that his detailed account of sorcery helped
strengthen the hold of European demonologies in England while also
inspiring the distinctively English tradition of secular magic and
conjuring. Scot's influence was considerable. Shakespeare drew on
The Discoverie of Witchcraft for his depiction of the witches in
Macbeth. So too did fellow-playwright Thomas Middleton in his
tragi-comedy The Witch. Recognising Scot's central importance in
the history of ideas, Philip Almond places his subject in the
febrile context of his age, examines the chief themes of his work
and shows why his writings became a sourcebook for aspiring
magicians and conjurors for several hundred years. England's First
Demonologist makes a notable contribution to a fascinating but
unjustly neglected topic in the study of Early Modern England and
European intellectual history.
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