Cursing, Crisis and Customary Knowledge in Early Modern English Townships

by Karen O'Brien

This book provides a historical and socio-legal investigation into the prevalence of litigation arising from cursing and interpersonal hostility in the under-explored region of Northwest England during a period of acute socio-economic crisis in the seventeenth century. Contributing to the scholarship of magic and witchcraft, it shows the complex circumstances of the world of healing and harming using customary knowledge such as magic and folk medicine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031440447
• ISBN13: 9783031440441
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"