LEADER 03427nam 2200553 450 001 9910793600603321 005 20191118111955.0 010 $a1-350-98706-9 010 $a1-78673-291-2 010 $a1-78672-291-7 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350987067 035 $a(CKB)4100000007746027 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5724083 035 $a(OCoLC)1128157362 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781350987067 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6165251 035 $a(iGPub)BLOM0004891 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat50987067 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007746027 100 $a20191118d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMagic as a political crime in medieval and early modern England $ea history of sorcery and treason /$fFrancis Young 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon, England :$cI.B. Tauris,$d2019. 210 2$a[London, England] :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 254 pages) 225 1 $aInternational library of historical studies ;$v107 311 $a0-7556-0275-7 311 $a1-78831-021-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index. 327 $a1. 'Compassing and imagining': magic as a political crime in Medieval England -- 2. Treason, sorcery and prophecy in the early English Reformation, 1534-58 -- 3. Elizabeth versus the 'Popish Conjurers', 1558-77 -- 4. 'A traitorous heart to the queen': effigies and witch-hunts, 1578-1603 -- 5. 'A breach in nature': magic as a political crime in early Stuart England, 1603-42 -- 6. The decline of magic as a political crime, 1642-1700. 330 $a"Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the 'superstition' embodied by magic came to be associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the convictions of undesirables, magic was also perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond."--book jacket. 410 0$aInternational library of historical studies ;$v107. 606 $aWitchcraft$xPolitical aspects$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $2Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought 615 0$aWitchcraft$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 676 $a133.4/30941 700 $aYoung$b Francis$g(Francis Kendrick),$0970243 801 0$bBTCTA 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793600603321 996 $aMagic as a political crime in medieval and early modern England$93803551 997 $aUNINA