A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth-century Witchcraft ProsecutionPsychology Press, 1997 - 284 páginas In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a complete account of this sensational trial and an analysis of the court procedures, and the larger social, cultural and political concerns of the period. |
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Witchcrafts here resemble witchcrafts there | 3 |
The toad in the blanket | 21 |
The swouning sisters | 55 |
Lice of extraordinary bigness | 78 |
What might it mean? | 107 |
Wrinkled face furrowed brow and gobber tooth | 109 |
A man of bilious complexion and a with power | 135 |
Of fear and drear | 156 |
An age of so much knowledge confidence | 172 |
Post mortem | 193 |
A matter of adipocere | 195 |
A tryal of witches | 212 |
Notes | 229 |
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A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth Century Witchcraft Prosecution Ivan Bunn,Gilbert Geis Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth Century Witchcraft Prosecution Ivan Bunn,Gilbert Geis Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth-century Witchcraft Prosecution Gilbert Geis,Ivan Bunn Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |
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