Author : Intrigue Generis
Publisher :
Release Date : 2018-06-10
ISBN : 9781732302716
Pages : 115 pages
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Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Pearson Education
Release Date : 2006
ISBN : 9780582419018
Pages : 364 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (19 Download)
Download Full The Witch-hunt in Early Modern Europe PDF by Brian P. Levack Full Free and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book desc: Between 1450 and 1750 thousands of people, most of them women, were accused, prosecuted and executed for the crime of witchcraft. The witch-hunt was not a single event; it comprised thousands of individual prosecutions, each shaped by the religious and social dimensions of the particular area as well as political and legal factors. Brian Levack sorts through the proliferation of theories to provide a coherent introduction to the subject, as well as contributing to the scholarly debate. The book: Examines why witchcraft prosecutions took place, how many trials and victims there were, and why witch-hunting eventually came to an end. Explores the beliefs of both educated and illiterate people regarding witchcraft. Uses regional and local studies to give a more detailed analysis of the chronological and geographical distribution of witch-trials. Emphasises the legal context of witchcraft prosecutions. Illuminates the social, economic and political history of early modern Europe, and in particular the position of women within it. In this fully updated third edition of his exceptional study, Levack incorporates the vast amount of literature that has emerged since the last edition. He substantially extends his consideration of the decline of the witch-hunt and goes further in his exploration of witch-hunting after the trials, especially in contemporary Africa. New illustrations vividly depict beliefs about witchcraft in early modern Europe.
Author : Bryan F. Le Beau
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-04-24
ISBN : 1000861309
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (8 Download)
Download Full The Story of the Salem Witch Trials PDF by Bryan F. Le Beau Full Free and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book desc: Providing an accessible and comprehensive overview, The Story of the Salem Witch Trials explores the events between June 10 and September 22, 1692, when nineteen people were hanged, one was pressed to death and over 150 were jailed for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. This book explores the history of that event and provides a synthesis of the most recent scholarship on the subject. It places the trials into the context of the Great European Witch-Hunt and relates the events of 1692 to witch-hunting throughout seventeenth-century New England. Now in a third edition, this book has been updated to include an expanded section on the European origins of witch-hunts, an updated and expanded epilogue (which discusses the witch-hunts, real and imagined, historical and cultural, since 1692), and an extensive bibliography. This complex and difficult subject is covered in a uniquely accessible manner that captures all the drama that surrounded the Salem witch trials. From beginning to end, the reader is carried along by the author’s powerful narration and mastery of the subject. While covering the subject in impressive detail, Bryan Le Beau maintains a broad perspective on the events and, wherever possible, lets the historical characters speak for themselves. Le Beau highlights the decisions made by individuals responsible for the trials that helped turn what might have been a minor event into a crisis that has held the imagination of students of American history. This third edition of The Story of the Salem Witch Trials is essential for students and scholars alike who are interested in women’s and gender history, colonial American history, and early modern history.
Author : K. David Goss Ph.D.
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2018-01-04
ISBN : 1440853215
Pages : 181 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (48 Download)
Download Full Documents of the Salem Witch Trials PDF by K. David Goss Ph.D. Full Free and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book desc: Through its extensive use of primary source materials and provision of essential accompanying explanations, this book places readers into the context of late 17th-century Salem society to shed light on one of the darkest events in American history—the Salem witch trials. • Examines the individual cases of many of the victims of the more than year-long Salem witch trials episode • Clarifies the historical context of the belief systems and culture of 17th-century Massachusetts to enable modern readers to grasp how such an unbelievable series of events could have happened in that specific era • Introduces contemporary audiences to the meaning of the archaic language and ideas of the late 1600s as used in the primary documents
Author : William E. Burns
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2003
ISBN : 0313321426
Pages : 401 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (133 Download)
Download Full Witch Hunts in Europe and America PDF by William E. Burns Full Free and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book desc: From early sorcery trials of the 14th century--associated primarily with French and Papal courts--to the witch executions of the late 18th century, this book's entries cover witch-hunting in individual countries, major witch trials from Chelmsford, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, and significant individuals from famous witches to the devout persecutors. Entries such as the evil eye, familiars, and witch-finders cover specific aspects of the witch-hunting process, while entries on writers and modern interpretations provide insight into the current thinking on early modern witch hunts. From the wicked witch of children's stories to Halloween and present-day Wiccan groups, witches and witchcraft still fascinate observers of Western culture. Witches were believed to affect climatological catastrophes, put spells on their neighbors, and cavort with the devil. In early modern Europe and the Americas, witches and witch-hunting were an integral part of everyday life, touching major events such as the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution, as well as politics, law, medicine, and culture.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-03-28
ISBN : 0191648833
Pages : 646 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (916 Download)
Download Full The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America PDF by Brian P. Levack Full Free and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book desc: The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas. They also relate these prosecutions to the Catholic and Protestant reformations, the introduction of new forms of criminal procedure, medical and scientific thought, the process of state-building, profound social and economic change, early modern patterns of gender relations, and the wave of demonic possessions that occurred in Europe at the same time. The essays survey the current state of knowledge in the field, explore the academic controversies that have arisen regarding witch beliefs and witch trials, propose new ways of studying the subject, and identify areas for future research.
Author : Dayanara Ble Star
Publisher : Dayanara Blue Star
Release Date : 2015-02-02
ISBN : 1507830718
Pages : 24 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (78 Download)
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Author : Mensah Adinkrah
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2015-08-01
ISBN : 1782385614
Pages : 338 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (823 Download)
Download Full Witchcraft, Witches, and Violence in Ghana PDF by Mensah Adinkrah Full Free and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book desc: Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative witches is prevalent. Purported witches are blamed for all manner of adversities including inexplicable illnesses and untimely deaths. As in other historical periods and other societies, in contemporary Ghana, alleged witches are typically female, elderly, poor, and marginalized. Childhood socialization in homes and schools, exposure to mass media, and other institutional mechanisms ensure that witchcraft beliefs are transmitted across generations and entrenched over time. This book provides a detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices and their role in fueling violent attacks on alleged witches by aggrieved individuals and vigilante groups.
Author : Robert Thurston
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-26
ISBN : 1317865014
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (178 Download)
Download Full The Witch Hunts PDF by Robert Thurston Full Free and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book desc: Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 – the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was accused, and what was the role of magic in the hunts? This important reassessment of witch panics and persecutions in Europeand colonial America both challenges and enhances existing interpretations of the phenomenon. Locating its origins 400 years earlier in the growing perception of threats to Western Christendom, Robert Thurston outlines the development of a ‘persecuting society’ in which campaigns against scapegoats such as heretics, Jews, lepers and homosexuals set the scene for the later witch hunts. He examines the creation of the witch stereotype and looks at how the early trials and hunts evolved, with the shift from accusatory to inquisitorial court procedures and reliance upon confessions leading to the increasing use of torture.
Author : Frances Hill
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-06-16
ISBN : 0786748389
Pages : 440 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (867 Download)
Download Full The Salem Witch Trials Reader PDF by Frances Hill Full Free and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book desc: Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides and astutely comments upon the actual documents from the trial--examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of "Satanic influence," as well as the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness. Always drawing on firsthand documents, she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians--and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists. For those fascinated by the Salem witch trials, this is compelling reading and the sourcebook.
Author : Stuart Clark
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2002-01-01
ISBN : 0485890046
Pages : 209 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (858 Download)
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Author : K.A. Hightower
Publisher : K.A. Hightower
Release Date : 2021-11-30
ISBN :
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( Download)
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Author : Robin DeRosa
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2009-10-21
ISBN : 0786454490
Pages : 216 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (864 Download)
Download Full The Making of Salem PDF by Robin DeRosa Full Free and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book desc: The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 are a case study in hysteria and group psychology, and the cultural effects still linger centuries later. This critical study examines original trial transcripts, historical accounts, fiction and drama, film and television shows, and tourist sites in contemporary Salem, challenging the process of how history is collected and recorded. Drawing from literary and historical theory, as well as from performance studies, the book offers a new definition of history and uses Salem as a tool for rethinking the relationships between the truth and the stories people tell about the past.
Author : K. David Goss
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2012
ISBN : 0313374589
Pages : 271 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (133 Download)
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Author : Bengt Ankerloo
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2002-08-01
ISBN : 1441127437
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (411 Download)
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Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2004-11-27
ISBN : 9780719066603
Pages : 226 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (666 Download)
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Author : Robert J. Street II
Publisher :
Release Date : 2013-07-12
ISBN : 9781304228871
Pages : 31 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (288 Download)
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