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  • A Trial of Witches

    A Seventeenth Century Witchcraft Prosecution

    de Ivan Bunn, Gilbert Geis ...
    In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a complete account of this sensational trial and an analysis of the court procedures, and the larger social, cultural and political concerns of the period.In a critique of the official process, the book ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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  • A Daughter's Love

    Thomas More & His Dearest Meg

    de John Guy ...
    The Whitbread Award–winning author of Queen of Scots presents a "brilliantly observed" dual biography of Sir Thomas More and his daughter ( The New York Times).Sir Thomas More's life is well known: his opposition to Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, his arrest for treason, his execution and martyrdom. Yet a major figure in his life—his beloved daughter Margaret—has been largely airbrushed out ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Ends of Life

    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

    de Keith Thomas ...
    How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Possessed By the Devil

    The History of the Islandmagee Witch Trials, 1711

    de Andrew Sneddon ...
    County Antrim, Ireland, 1711: Eight women were put on trial accused of bewitching and demonically possessing young Mary Dunbar, amid an attack by evil spirits on the local community and after the supernatural murder of a clergyman's wife. Mary Dunbar was the star witness in this trial, and the women were, by the standards of the time, believable witches – they dabbled in magic, they smoked, they ... Leer más

    $19.49 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Between Two Worlds

    How the English Became Americans

    de Malcolm Gaskill ...
    In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants -- entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike -- faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England

    de Alan MacFarlane ...
    This is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The history of witchcraft continues to attract attention with its emotive and contentious debates. The methodology and conclusions of this book have impacted not only on witchcraft studies but the entire approach to social and cultural history with its quantitative and anthropological approach. The book provides an ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Malicious History

    AN INVESTIGATION INTO KING JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND, I OF ENGLAND, AND HIS PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF WITCH HUNTS.

    de Joe Kasti ...
    In the summer of 1590, shortly after returning from Denmark with his new Queen, James VI of Scotland later James I of England, made the decision to attend the trials of several accused witches from the small kirk of North Berwick. The accused attempted to murder James by using witchcraft to sink the ship upon which he had journeyed. James was well known for his curiosity and intellect. This was an ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • An Everyday Life of the English Working Class

    Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

    de Carolyn Steedman ...
    This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Unusual Suspects: Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s

    Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s

    de Kenneth R. Johnston ...
    Robespierre's Reign of Terror spawned an evil little twin in William Pitt the Younger's Reign of Alarm, 1792-1798. Terror begat Alarm. Many lives and careers were ruined in Britain as a result of the alarmist regime Pitt set up to suppress domestic dissent while waging his disastrous wars against republican France. Liberal young writers and intellectuals whose enthusiasm for the American and ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Weeping Britannia

    Portrait of a Nation in Tears

    de Thomas Dixon ...
    There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the 'national character', the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Last Witches of England

    A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition

    de John Callow ...
    "Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman"Thoroughlyresearched**." The Spectator**"Intriguing." BBC History Magazine"Vividly told." BBC History Revealed"A timely warning against persecution**."** Morning Star<stro... ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Reading Witchcraft

    de Marion Gibson ...
    In this original study of witchcraft, Gibson explores the stories told by and about witches and their 'victims' through trial records, early news books, pamphlets and fascinating personal accounts. The author discusses the issues surrounding the interpretation of original historical sources and demonstrates that their representations of witchcraft are far from straight forward or reliable. ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD