Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland

by Lawrence Normand and Gareth Roberts

Book Overview

This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge
and demonologist. It provides hitherto unpublished and inaccessible material from the legal documentation of the trials in a way that makes the material...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085989388X
• ISBN13: 9780859893886
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 2.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.9"