Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy

Name: Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy
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ISBN: 9780674025424

ISBN-10: 0674025423

ISBN-13: 9780674025424

Edition: 2005

Authors: Malcolm Gaskill

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By spring 1645, two years of civil war had exacted a dreadful toll upon England. People lived in terror as disease and poverty spread, and the nation grew ever more politically divided. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne, exploited the anxiety and lawlessness of the time and initiated a brutal campaign to drive out the presumed evil in their midst. Touring Suffolk and East Anglia on horseback, they detected demons and idolators everywhere. Through torture, they extracted from terrified prisoners confessions of consorting with Satan and demonic spirits. Acclaimed historian Malcolm Gaskill retells the chilling story of the most savage…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.78" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface


Author's Note


Map


Prologue



Complication



Origins



Strange Effects



The Initiation



Dark Horizons



First Blood



Unravelling



Malignants



Hellish Invention



Contagion



Sticklers



The Biter Bit


Epilogue


Notes


Select Bibliography


Picture Acknowledgements


Index