1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990002002250403321

Autore

Hemming, Francis

Titolo

Official list of specific names in zoology / Francis Hemming, Diana Noakes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, 1958

Descrizione fisica

206 p. ; 28 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Noakes, Diana

Disciplina

590.16

Locazione

DAGEN

Collocazione

61 II B.7/40

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910768452403321

Autore

O'Brien Karen

Titolo

Cursing, Crisis and Customary Knowledge in Early Modern English Townships / / by Karen O'Brien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031440458

3031440455

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic, , 2731-5649

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Social history

Civilization - History

Great Britain - History

Law - History

Social History

Cultural History

History of Britain and Ireland

Legal History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1, Cursing in Early Modern Townships  -- 2. Spoken Transgression and the Courts  -- 3. Economic Fluctuation  -- 4. Customary Knowledge, Magic, and Cunning in Local Context  -- 5. Narratives of Desperation  -- 6. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a historical and socio-legal investigation into the prevalence of litigation arising from cursing and interpersonal hostility in the under-explored region of Northwest England during a period of acute socio-economic crisis in the seventeenth century. Contributing to the scholarship of magic and witchcraft, it shows the complex circumstances of the world of healing and harming using customary knowledge such as magic and folk medicine as it is variously presented in the documents of the legal system. While primary sources such as pamphlets have usefully informed numerous witchcraft studies, this book establishes popular belief derived from the depositions, interrogatories and various other manuscripts of the manorial, ecclesiastical and secular courts positioned within a micro historical early modern context. Karen O’Brien is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is a social historian of comparative socio-legal history and criminology. Within a range of global, thematic and temporal contexts, and in an appraisal of the requests of the weak to the powerful, her publications investigate legal sources such as petitions and depositions to ascertain how people transcend the hardships of daily life, principally by appealing to the law for justice. Her research is internationally influential in the field of petitioning and her forthcoming research and publications address the wide-ranging area of customary knowledge in international comparative historical context.