Author: John StearnePublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Confirmation and Discovery of Witch-craft Containing These Severall Particulars; that There are Witches Called Bad Witches, and Witches Untruely Called Good Or White Witches, and what Manner of People They Be, and how They May Bee Knowne, with Many Particulars Thereunto Tending. Together with the Confessions of Many of Those Executed Since May 1645, in the Severall Counties Hereafter Mentioned. As Also Some Objections Answered...
Author: John StearneThe Discovery of Witches and Witchcraft
Author: Matthew HopkinsPublisher: Puckrel Publishing
ISBN: 0955635012
Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Scholarly reprint of the writings of the Witchfinder General and his accomplice.
A Confirmation and Discovery of Vvitch-craft, Containing These Severall Particulars; that There are Vvitches Called Bad Witches, and Witches Untruely Called Good Or White Witches, and what Manner of People They Be, and how They May Bee Knowne, with Many Particulars Thereunto Tending. Together with the Confessions of Many of Those Executed Since May 1645. in the Severall Counties Hereafter Mentioned. As Also Some Objections Answered
Author: John StearnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England
Author: Charlotte-Rose MillarPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134769814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the Devil in English witchcraft pamphlets for the entire period of state-sanctioned witchcraft prosecutions (1563-1735). It provides a rereading of English witchcraft, one which moves away from an older historiography which underplays the role of the Devil in English witchcraft and instead highlights the crucial role that the Devil, often in the form of a familiar spirit, took in English witchcraft belief. One of the key ways in which this book explores the role of the Devil is through emotions. Stories of witches were made up of a complex web of emotionally implicated accusers, victims, witnesses, and supposed perpetrators. They reveal a range of emotional experiences that do not just stem from malefic witchcraft but also, and primarily, from a witch’s links with the Devil. This book, then, has two main objectives. First, to suggest that English witchcraft pamphlets challenge our understanding of English witchcraft as a predominantly non-diabolical crime, and second, to highlight how witchcraft narratives emphasized emotions as the primary motivation for witchcraft acts and accusations.
The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror
Author: Robert EdgarPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000951855
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror offers a comprehensive guide to this popular genre. It explores its origins, canonical texts and thinkers, the crucial underlying themes of nostalgia and hauntology, and identifies new trends in the field. Divided into five parts, the first focuses on the history of Folk Horror from medieval texts to the present day. It considers the first wave of contemporary Folk Horror through the films of the ‘unholy trinity’, as well as discussing the influence of ancient gods and early Folk Horror. Part 2 looks at the spaces, landscapes, and cultural relics, which form a central focus for Folk Horror. In Part 3, the contributors examine the rich history of the use of folklore in children’s fiction. The next part discusses recent examples of Folk Horror-infused music and image. Chapters consider the relationship between different genres of music to Folk Horror (such as folk music, black metal, and new wave), sound and performance, comic books, and the Dark Web. Often regarded as British in origin, the final part analyses texts which break this link, as the contributors reveal the larger realms of regional, national, international, and transnational Folk Horror. Featuring 40 contributions, this authoritative collection brings together leading voices in the field. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in this vibrant genre and its enduring influence on literature, film, music, and culture.
Coleridge Notebooks V3 Notes
Author: Kathleen CoburnPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000736431
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 997
Book Description
First published in 2002. Volume 3 of the Notes on the Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, spanning from 1804 to 1819. The volume is in two parts, text and notes. During his adult life until his death in 1834, Coleridge made entries in more than sixty notebooks. Neither commonplace books nor diaries, but something of both, they contain notes on literary, theological, philosophical, scientific, social and psychological matters, plans for and fragments of works and many other items of great interest. Shortly after World War II, Kathleen Coburn, formerly of Victoria College in Toronto, rediscovered this great collection of unpublished manuscripts. With the support of the Coleridge estate, she embarked on a career of editing and publishing these volumes and was awarded with many honours for her work, including: a Leverhulme Award (1948), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1953), a Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (1958), the Order of Canada (1974) and an honorary doctorate from her own university. Originally projected as a five volume set (each volume consisting of a book of text and a book of notes).
Coleridge on Dreaming
Author: Jennifer FordPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521583160
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book is the first in-depth investigation of Coleridge's responses to his dreams and to contemporary debates on the nature of dreaming, a subject of perennial interest to poets, philosophers and scientists throughout the Romantic period. Coleridge wrote and read extensively on the subject, but his richly diverse and original ideas have hitherto received little attention, scattered as they are throughout his notebooks, letters and marginalia. Jennifer Ford's emphasis is on analysing the ways in which dreaming processes were construed, by Coleridge in his dream readings, and by his contemporaries in a range of poetic and medical works. This historical exploration of dreams and dreaming allows Ford to explore previously neglected contemporary debates on 'the medical imagination'. By avoiding purely biographical or psychoanalytic approaches, she reveals instead a rich historical context for the ways in which the most mysterious workings of the Romantic imagination were explored and understood.
English Tracts, Pamphlets and Printed Sheets
Author: James Harvey BloomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths around Northampton
Author: Paul HarrisonPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1526713845
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Twenty true tales of violence and villainy in this area of England’s East Midlands—includes illustrations. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Northampton investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit, and pure malice committed over the centuries in this picturesque part of England. For this journey into Northampton’s bloody past, Paul Harrison has selected over twenty notorious episodes that give a fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. He reinvestigates some of the most intriguing cases, introduces new evidence, and questions verdicts that were reached many years ago. Among the cases are two old people who were bludgeoned to death for no apparent reason; the murder of a mistress and her child; a philandering salesman who faked his own death; a promiscuous woman who came to a cruel end; a shoemaker who brutally attacked his wife; and the disappearance of Lydia Atley, whose remains were never found. These human dramas are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances—while others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction.
Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith
Author: Regina BuccolaPublisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575911038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Fairies, unruly women, and vestigial Catholicism constituted a frequently invoked triad in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century drama which has seldom been critically examined and therefore constitutes a significant lacuna in scholarly treatments of early modern theater, including the work of Shakespeare. Fairy tradition has lost out in scholarly critical convention to the more masculine mythologies of Christianity and classical Greece and Rome, in which female deities either serve masculine gods or are themselves masculinized (i.e., Diana as a buckskinned warrior). However, the fairy tradition is every bit as significant in our critical attempts to situate early modern texts in their historical contexts as the references to classical texts and struggles associated with state-mandated religious beliefs are widely agreed to be. fairy, rebellious woman, quasi-Catholic trio repeatedly stages resistance to early modern conceptions of appropriate class and gender conduct and state-mandated religion in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cymbeline, All's Well That Ends Well, and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist.
