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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"witch hunt"”.
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Bewitching The Stage: Elizabethan And Jacobean Witch-Lore And Witch-Hunt
… project hypothesizes that the early modern stage witch's grotesque femininity and her masculine presumption of agency were the effective signifiers of the feminine covert, what men fantasized about the reproductive secrets of womanhood and their control over the feminine activities. My …
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The Crucible of History:How Apology and Reconciliation Created Modern Conceptions of the Salem Witch Trials
… alike have been mesmerized by the Salem witch trials. Most of the literature focuses on the trials themselves and takes one of three approaches: anthropological; sociological; or conspiratorial. Recently Gretchen Adams, professor of history at Texas Tech University, approached the trials …
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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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American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000
… and lawyers condemned the phenomenon as a witch-hunt. They accurately understood it to be a powerful delusion, or what contemporary cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard termed a "hyperreality," in which audiences confuse the media universe for real life. Presented mainly through tabloid …
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Filid, Fairies and Faith: The Effects of Gaelic Culture, Religious Conflict and the Dynamics of Dual Confessionalisation on the Suppression of Witchcraft Accusations and Witch-Hunts in Early Modern Ireland, 1533 – 1670
The European Witch-Hunts reached their peak in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Betweeen 1590 and 1661, approximately 1500 women and men were accused of, and executed for, the crime of witchcraft in Scotland. England suffered the largest witch-hunt in its history during the Civil Wars of …
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Children, Adolescents, and English Witchcraft
… is that of children and their relationship to witchcraft and the witch trials. This thesis begins with a survey of historical done on the general theme of childhood, and moves on to review secondary literature about children and the continental witch trials. The thesis also reviews …
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The Significance Of The Devil And Related Beliefs in Early Modern Welsh Popular Culture
… rich folklore tradition concerning the Devil and witchcraft, yet as Clark notes, 'Wales is a region that scarcely registers in the historiography of the so-called witch-craze.' This dissertation examines perceptions of the Devil in early modern Wales, and in the process tries to reintegrate the …
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A Gobber Tooth, A Hairy Lip, A Squint Eye: Concepts of the Witch and the Body in Early Modern Europe
… motivation for the increased severity of the witch hunts of that time. Both secondary and primary sources have been used, in particular the contemporary demonologies by such authors as Bodin, and Kramer and Sprenger. The thesis is divided into five chapters, including an Introduction and …