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Elements in Magic eBook Series

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  • Staging Witchcraft Before the Law

    Skepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials

    by Julie Stone Peters ...
    Series series Elements in Magic
    While the judicial machinery of early modern witch-hunting could work with terrifying swiftness, skepticism and evidentiary barriers often made conviction difficult. Seeking proof strong enough to overcome skepticism, judges and accusers turned to performance, staging 'acts of Sorcery and Witch-craft manifest to sense.' Looking at an array of demonological treatises, pamphlets, documents, and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • The Wife of Bath

    A Biography

    by Marion Turner ...
    From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

    Edited by Elizabeth Knowles ...
    The first edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations was published in 1941 and for over 70 years this bestselling book has remained unrivalled in its coverage of quotations past and present. The eighth edition is a vast treasury of wit and wisdom spanning the centuries and providing the ultimate answer to the question, 'Who said that?' Find that half-remembered line in a browser's paradise of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Witchcraft: The Basics

    by Marion Gibson ...
    Series series The Basics
    Witchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through to its resonances in the modern world. Through the use of two case studies, this book delves into the emergence of the witch as a harmful figure within western thought and traces the representation of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • England's First Demonologist

    Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft'

    by Philip C. Almond ...
    The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can indure with patience the hand and correction of God.' Reginald Scot, whose words these are, published his remarkable book The Discoverie of Witchcraft in 1584. England's first major work of demonology, witchcraft and the occult, the book was unashamedly sceptical. It is said that so outraged ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Textual Magic

    Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England

    by Katherine Storm Hindley ...
    An expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages.Katherine Storm Hindley explores words at their most powerful: words that people expected would physically change the world. Medieval Europeans often resorted to the use of spoken or written charms to ensure health or fend off danger. Hindley draws on an unprecedented archive of more than a thousand such ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everyday Magicians

    Legal Records and Magic Manuscripts from Tudor England

    by Sharon Hubbs Wright, Frank Klaassen ...
    Series series Magic in History Sourcebooks
    Most of the women and men who practiced magic in Tudor England were not hanged or burned as witches, despite being active members of their communities. These everyday magicians responded to common human problems such as the vagaries of money, love, property, and influence, and they were essential to the smooth functioning of English society. This illuminating book tells their stories through the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Unrepentant Renaissance

    From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton

    by Richard Strier ...
    Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Staging Harmony

    Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama

    by Katherine Steele Brokaw ...
    In Staging Harmony**, Katherine Steele Brokaw reveals how the relationship between drama, music, and religious change across England's long sixteenth century moved religious discourse to more moderate positions**. It did so by reproducing the complex personal attachments, nostalgic overtones, and bodily effects that allow performed music to evoke the feeling, if not always the reality, of social ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640

    Edited by Andrew Hadfield ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman

    Edited by Andrew Cole, Andrew Galloway ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Piers Plowman has long been considered one of the greatest poems of medieval England. Current scholarship on this alliterative masterpiece looks very different from that available even a decade ago. New information about the manuscripts of the poem, new historical discoveries, and new investigations of its literary, cultural and theoretical scope have fundamentally altered the very meaning of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Damned Art (RLE Witchcraft)

    Essays in the Literature of Witchcraft

    Edited by Sydney Anglo ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft
    This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records. The works discussed deal with the contemporary theories propounded by those who sought either to justify, or to refute persecution. Eight contributors of differing interests,a nd with different approaches to their subject, examine a selection of important, representative witchcraft texts – published in England, France, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD