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The Lancashire witches : histories and stories / edited by Robert Poole.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Manchester Religious Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trials (Witchcraft)--England--Pendle--History--17th century.
- Trials (Witchcraft).
- Witchcraft--England--History--17th century.
- Witchcraft.
- England--Pendle.
- England.
- Genre:
- Actes de congres.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History
- Conference papers and proceedings
- proceedings (reports)
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This is a study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. The book has essays by experts in history and English literature/Renaissance studies, with summaries to explain key points.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the Lancashire witches in historical context / James Sharpe
- Potts, plots and politics : James I's Daemonologie and The wonderfull discoverie of witches / Stephen Pumfrey
- Thomas Pott's 'dusty memory' : reconstructing justice in The wonderfull discoverie of witches / Marion Gibson
- 'Those to whom evil is done' : family dynamics in the Pendle witch trials / Jonathan Lumby
- Witchcraft, economy and society in the forest of Pendle / John Swain
- The Reformation in the parish of Whalley / Michael Mullett
- Beyond Pendle : the 'lost' Lancashire witches / Kirsteen Macpherson Bardell
- The pilots thumb : Macbeth and the Jesuits / Richard Wilson
- Sexual and spiritual politics in the events of 1633-34 and The late Lancashire witches / Alison Findlay
- The 'Lancashire novelist' and the Lancashire witches / Jeffrey Richards
- Wicca, paganism and history ; contemporary witchcraft and the Lancashire witches / Joanne Pearson.
- Notes:
- Eight of the ten essays are from a conference held Apr. 23-24, 1999 at St. Martin's College.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-218) and index.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610734146
- 9781847795496
- 1847795498
- 9781781700150
- 178170015X
- 9781280734144
- 1280734140
- 9781847790217
- 1847790216
- 9781417574773
- 1417574771
- OCLC:
- 437158006
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