Witchcraft A History in Thirteen Trials
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Verkaufsrang
18595
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.09.2024
Abbildungen
2 x 8pp colour plates sections
Verlag
Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersSeitenzahl
298
Maße (L/B/H)
19.5/12.7/2.4 cm
Gewicht
260 g
Farbe
Aquamarin
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-398-50853-8
Malcolm Gaskill, author of The Ruin of All Witches
'Thought-provoking and timely... Searing'
Jessie Childs, The Times
In Witchcraft, Professor Marion Gibson uses thirteen significant trials to tell the global history of witchcraft and witch-hunts. As well as exploring the origins of witch-hunts through some of the most famous trials from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, it takes us in new and surprising directions.Three women were prosecuted under a version of the 1735 Witchcraft Act as recently as 2018.
Professor Gibson also tells the stories of the 'witches' - mostly women like Helena Scheuberin, Anny Sampson and Joan Wright, whose stories have too often been overshadowed by those of the powerful men, such as King James I and 'Witchfinder General' Matthew Hopkins, who hounded them.
Once a tool invented by demonologists to hurt and silence their enemies, witch trials have been twisted and transformed over the course of history and the lines between witch and witch-hunter blurred. For the fortunate, a witch-hunt is just a metaphor, but, as this book makes clear, witches are truly still on trial.
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