Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England

by Peter Elmer

Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England constitutes a wide-ranging and original overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of archives, both local and national, it seeks to relate the rise and decline of belief in witchcraft, alongside the legal prosecution of witches, to the wider political culture of the period...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198717725
• ISBN13: 9780198717720
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.4"