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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2005.
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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.