Research Catalog

Title

Witchcraft in early modern Scotland : James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick witches / edited by Lawrence Normand and Gareth Roberts.

Publication

Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Normand, Lawrence
• Roberts, Gareth, 1949-

Description

xiii, 454 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Summary

From 1590 to 1596, Scotland saw its first major witch-hunt. This book examines the political, demonological and cultural forces which shaped the North Berwick witchcraft case, and provides edited texts of the accounts of the trials of these witches.

Series Statement

Exeter studies in history

Uniform Title

• University press scholarship online.
• Exeter studies in history (Unnumbered)

Subject

• James I, King of England, 1566-1625
• 1500-1599
• Geschichte 1590-1591
• Witchcraft > Scotland > History > 16th century
• Witchcraft > history
• Magic > history
• Occultism > history
• Trials (Witchcraft) > Scotland > History > 16th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-449) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: History, Witchcraft, Texts -- pt. 1. Context. 1. The Court and Politics. 2. Social Contexts and Cultural Formations. 3. The Kirk. 4. Scottish Witchcraft Before the North Berwick Witch Hunt. 5. The Legal Process. 6. Aftermath -- pt. 2. Texts. 7. Witch Hunting: Examinations, Confessions and Depositions. 8. Records of the Witchcraft Trials: Dittays. 9. Witch Hunt Propaganda: News from Scotland -- News from Scotland. 10. Theorising the Witch Hunt: James VI's Demonology -- Demonology -- App. Privy Council Orders Relating to the Legal Processes of Witch Trials 1591-7.

ISBN

• 0859896803
• 085989388X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001320971

OCLC

• 45814909
• SCSB-11357662

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library