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Author Notestein, Wallace, 1878-1969.

Title A History of Witchcraft in England : From 1558 to 1718.

Publication Info. Auckland : The Floating Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (448 pages)
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Contents Title; Contents; Preface; Chapter I -- The Beginnings of English Witchcraft; Chapter II -- Witchcraft Under Elizabeth; Chapter III -- Reginald Scot; Chapter IV -- The Exorcists; Chapter V -- James I and Witchcraft; Chapter VI -- Notable Jacobean Cases; Chapter VII -- The Lancashire Witches and Charles I; Chapter VIII -- Matthew Hopkins; Chapter IX -- Witchcraft During the Commonwealth and Protectorate; Chapter X -- The Literature of Witchcraft from 1603 to 1660; Chapter XI -- Witchcraft Under Charles II and James II; Chapter XII -- Glanvill and Webster and the Literary War over Witchcraft, 1660-1688.
Chapter XIII -- The Final DeclineChapter XIV -- The Close of the Literary Controversy; Appendices; Endnotes.
Summary Many historical treatments of witchcraft tend to be somewhat sensationalistic and cartoonish. Not so with Wallace Notestein's measured, intellectual take on the subject in A History of Witchcraft in England, which offers not only a thorough historical narrative, but also puts the practice into social and political context.
Subject Witchcraft -- England.
Magic -- England.
Witchcraft -- England -- History.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
Witchcraft. (OCoLC)fst01176327
England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
Other Form: Print version: Notestein, Wallace. A History of Witchcraft in England : From 1558 to 1718. Auckland : The Floating Press, ©2014
ISBN 9781776536016 (electronic bk.)
1776536010 (electronic bk.)
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