03447nam 2200685Ia 450 99621069610331620200520144314.01-84779-549-81-78170-015-X1-280-73414-097866107341461-84779-021-61-4175-7477-1(CKB)1000000000030917(EBL)242648(OCoLC)437158006(SSID)ssj0000188563(PQKBManifestationID)11189658(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000188563(PQKBWorkID)10152482(PQKB)10805783(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085732(Au-PeEL)EBL242648(CaPaEBR)ebr10074851(CaONFJC)MIL843787(OCoLC)935227812(Au-PeEL)EBL5121071(CaONFJC)MIL73414(OCoLC)1027199165(MiAaPQ)EBC242648(EXLCZ)99100000000003091720020912d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Lancashire witches[electronic resource] histories and stories /edited by Robert PooleManchester ;New York Manchester University Press ;New York Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave20021 online resource (241 p.)Eight of the ten essays are from a conference held Apr. 23-24, 1999 at St. Martin's College.0-7190-6204-7 0-7190-6203-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-218) and index.Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the Lancashire witches in historical context James Sharpe; 2 Potts, plots and politics: James I's Daemonologie and The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches Stephen Pumfrey; 3 Thomas Potts's 'dusty memory': reconstructing justice in The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches Marion Gibson; 4 'Those to whom evil is done': family dynamics in the Pendle witch trials Jonathan Lumby; 5 Witchcraft, economy and society in the forest of Pendle John Swain; 6 The Reformation in the parish of Whalley Michael Mullett7 Beyond Pendle: the 'lost' Lancashire witches Kirsteen Macpherson Bardell8 The pilot's thumb: Macbeth and the Jesuits Richard Wilson; 9 Sexual and spiritual politics in the events of 1633-34 and The Late Lancashire Witches Alison Findlay; 10 The 'Lancashire novelist' and the Lancashire witches Jeffrey Richards; 11 Wicca, Paganism and history: contemporary witchcraft and the Lancashire witches Joanne Pearson; Bibliography; IndexThis is a study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. The book has essays by experts in history and English literature/Renaissance studies, with summaries to explain key points.Trials (Witchcraft)EnglandPendleHistory17th centuryWitchcraftEnglandHistory17th centuryTrials (Witchcraft)HistoryWitchcraftHistory133.430942764509032Poole Robert800977MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996210696103316The Lancashire witches2333833UNISA