Debates about witchcraft in England, 1650-1736

This thesis shows the evolution of educated belief in witchcraft in England from 1650, at the end of the last decade of largescale prosecution, to 1735/6, when the Jacobean witchcraft legislation was repealed. It looks at this belief as a body of ideas more or less susceptible to serious use, rather...

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Main Author: Bostridge, Ian
Published: University of Oxford 1991
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305242