| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
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| Title/Author: |
The Lancashire witches/ edited by Robert Poole. |
| Reminder of title: |
histories and stories / |
| other author: |
Poole, Robert. |
| Published: |
Manchester ;Manchester University Press ; : 2002., |
| Description: |
xiv, 226 p. :facsim. ;24 cm. |
| Notes: |
Eight of the ten essays are from a conference held Apr. 23-24, 1999 at St. Martin's College. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction : the Lancashire witches in historical context / James Sharpe -- Potts, plots and politics : James I's Daemonologie and The wonderfull discoverie of witches/ Stephen Pumfrey -- Thomas Pott's 'dusty memory' : reconstructing justice in The wonderfull discoverie of witches / Marion Gibson -- 'Those to whom evil is done' : family dynamics in the Pendle witch trials/ Jonathan Lumby -- Witchcraft, economy and society in the forest of Pendle / John Swain -- The Reformation in the parish of Whalley / Michael Mullett -- Beyond Pendle : the 'lost' Lancashire witches/ Kirsteen Macpherson Bardell -- The pilots thumb : Macbeth and the Jesuits / Richard Wilson -- Sexual and spiritual politics in the events of 1633-34 and The late Lancashire witches/ Alison Findlay -- The 'Lancashire novelist' and the Lancashire witches / Jeffrey Richards -- Wicca, paganism and history ; contemporary witchcraft and the Lancashire witches / Joanne Pearson. |
| Subject: |
Trials (Witchcraft) - History - 17th century. - England - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=126908An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1417574771 (electronic bk.) |