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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Witchcraft trials"”.
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King James' Daemonologie and Scottish Witchcraft Trials
… of King James during the North Berwick trials influenced the writing of <em>Daemonologie</em> and how <em>Daemonologie </em>set a framework for future witchcraft prosecutions.
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Straight and narrow - Irish witch belief, trials and memory : Straight and narrow: a novel, and Irish witch belief, trials and memory: a critical component
… literary and cultural history regarding witchcraft from the beginning of the Restoration Period in 1660 to the Passing of the Witchcraft Act in 1735 (which prohibited people from making witchcraft accusations). I address the academic research done in this area, with a particular focus on …
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Cotton Mather's cosmology and the 1692 Salem witch trials
The Salem witchcraft trials and Cotton Mather's role in them continue to engage the interests of historians and scholars, who have written about them from a number of perspectives, including those derived from most of the social sciences. However, Mather's own seventeenth-century, New England …
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Seeds of exchange: collecting for Russia's apothecary and botanical gardens in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… of Moscow’s trading quarters. The specter of witchcraft and the role of Chancellery doctors in witchcraft trials concludes the chapter and is used to underscore the perceived threat and power of plants as they were transported from the countryside into the city. The second chapter, “Via the …