Early Modern Witches: Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing

ISBN-13: 9780415215800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str.

Marion Gibson

Opis

This collection of pamphlets describes fifteen English witchcraft cases in detail, vividly recreating events to give the reader the illusion of actually being present at witchcraft accusations, trials and hangings. But how much are we victims of literary manipulation by these texts? The pamphlets are presented in annotated format, to allow the reader to decide. Some of the texts appear in print for the first time in three centuries, whilst others are newly edited to give a clearer picture of sources.

Recenzje

'Gibson is to be congratulated on bringing together these materials together, and on the skill, scholarship and insights she has brought to bear on them.' - James Sharpe, Continuity and Change, vol. 17 2, 2002

Spis treści

Sources for students, Introduction 1 The Examination and Confession of certaine Wytches (1566) 2 The Examination of John Walsh (1566) 3 A Rehearsall both straung and true (1579) 4 A Detection of damnable driftes (1579) 5 Richard Galis, A brief treatise (1579) 6 W.W., A true and just Recorde (1582) 7 The severall factes of Witch-crafte (1585) 8 The Apprehension and confession of three notorious Witches (1589) 9 A Most Wicked worke of a wretched Witch (1592) 10 ‘A memoriall of certaine most notorious witches’ (1595) 11 ‘The severall practises of Johane Harrison and her daughter’ (1606) Conception and pregnancy 12 The Witches of Northamptonshire (1612) 13 Thomas Potts, The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches (1612) 14 Witches Apprehended (1613) 15 The Wonderful Discovery of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower (1619) 16 Henry Goodcole, The wonderfull discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer, a Witch (1621)

O autorze

Marion Gibson