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Witchcraft in early modern England

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Longman, 2001 - History - 144 pages

With the renewed interest in the history of witches and witchcraft, this timely book provides an introduction to this fascinating topic, informed by the main trends of new thinking on the subject. Beginning with a discussion of witchcraft in the early modern period, and charting the witch panics that took place at this time, the author goes on to look at the historical debate surrounding the causes of the legal persecution of witches. Contemporary views of witchcraft put forward by judges, theological writers and the medical profession are examined, as is the place of witchcraft in the popular imagination. Jim Sharpe also looks at the gender dimensions of the witch persecution, and the treatment of witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Supported by a range of compelling documents, the book concludes with an exploration of why witch panics declined in the late seventeenth century and early eighteenth century.

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User Review  - Heather - Goodreads

This is a short but informative book by James A. Sharpe, a great historian on the subject. James Sharpe examines why witch hunts occured in early modern England, and looks at contemporary views of ... Read full review

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User Review  - Annalisa - Goodreads

An introduction to both witchcraft in early modern England and what scholars have argued about it. It also includes excerpts from 27 documents from the period, which is a great help to drawing my own conclusions about the period. Read full review

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Instruments of Darkness | Sharpe, James
Witchcraft in Early Modern England. James Sharpe. 384 pages | 5 x 7 3/4 Paper 1997 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1633-2 | $19.95s | £13.00 | Add to shopping cart ...
www.upenn.edu/ pennpress/ book/ 1733.html

JSTOR: Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England
Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England. By James Sharpe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. xiv + 365 pp. ...
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establishing agendas for future scholarship in early modern ...
James Sharpe, Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England (Phila-. delphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), 108–9. ...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/ cgi-bin/ resolve?MP102400406

Cromwell Collection - Huntingdon Library, Record Office and the ...
Title: Witchcraft in early modern England / James Sharpe Author: Sharpe, James Class: C53.2 REF Date: 2001 Publisher: Longman, 2001. ...
hipweb.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ cgi-bin/ cromwellcollection/ Csearchcsv.pl?search=modern

Devil in a Blue Dress : Women, Inherent Evil, and the Sin of ...
Both Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England, by James Sharpe and Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England by Elizabeth ...
minds.wisconsin.edu/ bitstream/ 1793/ 22138/ 2/ fctaylor.htm

Chapter Eleven: Religious Consolidation and Renewal, 1600-1789
of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England (Philadelphia: University of. Pennsylvania Press, 1997); pg Maxwell-Stuart, An Abundance of Witches: The ...
www.cambridge.org/ resources/ 0521808944/ 3288_WiesnerHanks%20ch11%20further%20reading.pdf

Stella Australis - Australian Pagan Information
Instruments of Darkness : Witchcraft in Early Modern England by James Sharpe (University of Pennslyvania Press, 1997). Flame Pic ...
www.geocities.com/ athens/ 2962/ history/ witchbks.html

Powell's Books - Witchcraft in Early Modern England (Seminar ...
Why were witches legally persecuted and what was their place in the popular imagination? This text examines the historical debate about witches in early ...
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Female power - witches and gender in Elizabethan England.doc
In recent times, witchcraft in early modern England has been much studied by. many eminent historians and anthropologists such as Alan macfarlane ...
www.hulford.co.uk/ dumycz.pdf

Manhood, Witchcraft and Possession in Old and New England by Erika ...
Studies of witchcraft in early modern England. and colonial New England, for example, need to acknowledge the ways these. communities were organized into ...
deepblue.lib.umich.edu/ bitstream/ 2027.42/ 57688/ 2/ gassere_1.pdf

About the author (2001)

Jim Sharpe is Professor of History at the University of York. He has written widely on the history of witchcraft.

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