Vexed with Devils : Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England /
Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England. Those possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited a common set of symptoms: fits, vomiting, visions, contortions, speaking in tongues, and an antipath...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2017.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Possession, gender, and power
- Discerning demonic and witchcraft-possession in early modern England
- Engendering English witchcraft-possession: the Samuel Family in Warboys
- Disputing possession in England: Samuel Harsnett versus John Darrell
- Engendering New England witchcraft-possession: George Burroughs in Salem
- Disputing possession in New England: Robert Calef versus Cotton Mather
- Continuity and patriarchy at the turn of the eighteenth century.