Witchfinders : a seventeenth-century English tragedy /

"By spring 1645, two years of civil war had exacted a dreadful toll upon England. People lived in terror as disease and poverty spread, and the nation grew ever more politically divided. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne, exploited the anxiety...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gaskill, Malcolm
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Hopkins, Matthew, > -1647.
Stearne, John, > active 17th century.
Stearne, John, > époque 17e s.
1600-1699
Geschichte 1643-1645.
Witchcraft > England > East Anglia > History > 17th century.
Sorcellerie > Angleterre > Est-Anglie > Histoire > 17e siècle.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
Witchcraft.
Besessenheit
Hexenverfolgung
Heksenvervolgingen.
Heksenprocessen.
England > East Anglia.
East Anglia
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • I: Complication
  • Origins
  • Strange effects
  • The initiation
  • Dark horizons
  • First blood
  • II: Unravelling
  • Malignants
  • Hellish invention
  • Contagion
  • Sticklers
  • The biter bit.

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