Reading Witchcraft

Name: Reading Witchcraft
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ISBN: 9780415206464

ISBN-10: 0415206464

ISBN-13: 9780415206464

Edition: 1999

Authors: Marion Gibson

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What really happened in the witchcraft persecutions of sixteenth and seventeenth century England?Reading Witchcraftexamines the stories told by and about witches and their victims through the trial records, early news books and personal accounts left by people caught up in a deadly and mysterious historical puzzle. Looking closely at these "first-hand" accounts, Marion Gibson shows that their representations of witchcraft are far from simple: they changed over time and according to the source and context of each story. Witchcraft was not such a clearly defined crime as has been supposed, and people spoke or wrote of it in a variety of unexpected and thought-provoking ways, demonstrating…

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List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/5/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin is Professor in the English department of theUniversity of Montpellier III Paul Valï¿½ry, France.Marion Gibson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. Her publications include Reading Witchcraft (Routledge, 1999), Possession, Puritanism and Print (Pickering and Chatto, 2006) and Witchcraft Myths in American Culture (Routledge, 2007).



Acknowledgements


Introduction


The witch, the pedlar and the pedlar's son


Rereading witchcraft: which stories and why do we need to reread them?



Records



Ghost-writers - dialogue, interrogation and the production of the records of witchcraft


Questions


Answers: pre-scripted or imaginative, resistance or confession?


Writers: clerks and pamphleteers


A case study of The Apprehension and confession of three notorious Witches



Witchcraft trials and a methodology for reading them


Preparing for trial


Indictment


Arraignment and plea


Reporting evidence - documents and oral testimony


Reporting evidence - vivid accounts


Verdict and sentence


Reporting evidence - a case study of The Witches of Northamptonshire and a related manuscript


London and Middlesex - Goodcole


Conclusions


Notes


Bibliography


Index