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John Stearne's Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft - Text, Context and Afterlife (Paperback)
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John Stearne's Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft - Text, Context and Afterlife (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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Between 1645-7, John Stearne led the most significant outbreak of
witch-hunting in England. As accusations of witchcraft spread
across East Anglia, Stearne and Matthew Hopkins were enlisted by
villagers to identify and eradicate witches. After the trials
finally subsided in 1648, Stearne wrote his only publication, A
confirmation and discovery of witchcraft, but it had a limited
readership. Consequently, Stearne and his work fell into obscurity
until the 1800s, and were greatly overshadowed by Hopkins and his
text. This book is the first study which analyses Stearne's
publication and contextualises his ideas within early modern
intellectual cultures of religion, demonology, gender, science, and
print in order to better understand the witch-finder's beliefs and
motives. The book argues that Stearne was a key player in the
trials, that he was not a mainstream 'puritan', and that his
witch-finding availed from contemporary science. It traces A
confirmation's reception history from 1648 to modern day and argues
that the lack of research focusing on Stearne has resulted in
misrepresentations of the witch-finder in the historiography of
witchcraft. This book redresses the imbalance and seeks to provide
an alternative reading of the East Anglian witch-hunt and of
England's premier witch-hunter, John Stearne.
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