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Witchcraft and the Act of 1604 / edited by John Newton and Jo Bath.
- Title
- Witchcraft and the Act of 1604 / edited by John Newton and Jo Bath.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
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- Description
- xi, 248 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Based on a conference held in March 2004 at St. John's College, Durham--Acknowledgements.
- Series Statement
- Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 131
- Uniform Title
- Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 131.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- Based on a conference held in Mar. 2004 at St. John's College, Durham.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Witchcraft, witch codes, witch act / King James's experience of witches, and the 1604 English Witchcraft Act / Standing within the prospect of belief : Macbeth, King James, and witchcraft / Witchcraft and possession at the accession of James I : the publication of Samuel Harsnett's Declaration of egregious popish impostures / (Re)possession of dispossession : John Darrell and diabolical discourse / Applying the act of 1604 : witches in Essex, Northamptonshire and Lancashire / The treatment of potential witches in north-east England, c. 1649-1680 / Witchcraft and stage spectacle : spectacular witches after 1604 / Witchcraft, emotion and imagination in the English Civil War / The politics of Pandaemonium / Decriminalising the witch : the origin of and response to the 1736 Witchcraft Act / The Witchcraft Act of 1563 (5 Eliz I, c. 16) -- The Witchcraft Act of 1604 (1 Jas. I, c. 12) -- Canon 72 of the Church of England (1604) -- The Witchcraft Act of 1736 (9 Geo. II, c. 5). John Newton -- P.G. Maxwell-Stuart -- Roy Booth -- Clive Holmes -- Tom Webster -- Marion Gibson -- Jo Bath -- Chris Brooks -- Malcolm Gaskill -- Jonathan Barry -- Owen Davies --
- ISBN
- 9789004165281 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 9004165282 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008004205
- OCLC
- 173808199
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library