Witchcraft was at its height in Elizabethan London. Edward Jorden showed that hysteria and not demons lay behind the witch-craze. Edward Jorden's Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother (1603) is said to have reclaimed the demoniacally possessed for medicine and to have introduced the concept of hysteria into English psychiatry. The aim of this book is to reassess the reasons why Jorden wrote his famous pamphlet and to set it in its actual historical context. This book brings Jorden's pamphlet together with two works by Jorden's adversaries, John...
Witchcraft was at its height in Elizabethan London. Edward Jorden showed that hysteria and not demons lay behind the witch-craze. Edward Jorden's ...
These twenty-six papers are taken from the thirty-sixth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in London in July 2002. The papers are published under six thematic headings: The archaeology and history of Oman and the Gulf; Comparative water systems; The archaeology and history of pre-Islamic Yemen; The epigraphy of pre-Islamic Yemen; Yemen in the Islamic period; Ethnography in Yemen.
These twenty-six papers are taken from the thirty-sixth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in London in July 2002. The papers are publish...
This book tells the story of how the transition to democracy in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without raising most of them from poverty. It shows in detail how the continuing strength of the white establishment forces the leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) to compromise plans for full political and economic transformation. Deferring the economic transformation, the new dispensation nurtures a small black elite. The new elite absorbs the economic interests of the established white elites while continuing to share racial identities with the majority of their...
This book tells the story of how the transition to democracy in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without raising most of them from ...
