Detestable and wicked arts : : New England and witchcraft in the early modern Atlantic world / / Paul B. Moyer.
"While interpersonal, local, and regional contexts are critical to the analysis of witch-hunting in early New England, this book shows that a full understanding of the Puritan colonies' battle against black magic can only be achieved by placing it in a trans-Atlantic perspective"--
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca [New York] : : Cornell University Press,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (293 pages) :; illustrations, charts |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The Devil in New England
- "Hanged for a Witch" : Witch-hunting in New England before 1670
- "Being instigated by the Devil" : The Crime of Witchcraft
- "A forward, discontented frame of spirit" : The New England Witch
- "The more women, the more witches" : Gender and Witchcraft
- "There was some mischief in it" : The Social Context of Witchcraft
- "Very awful and amazing" : Witch Panics and the Bewitched
- "According to God's Law" : Witch-hunting as a Judicial Process
- Conclusion : The Case of Ann Burt and Witch-hunting in the English Atlantic.