Detestable and Wicked Arts : : New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World / / Paul B. Moyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Moyer, Paul B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.) :; 19 b&w halftones, 6 maps, 1 chart
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Maps, Figures, and Tables --; Preface --; Introduction The Devil in New England --; 1. “Hanged for a Witch”: Witch-Hunting in New England before 1670 --; 2. “Being Instigated by the Devil”: The Crime of Witchcraft --; 3. “A Forward, Discontented Frame of Spirit”: The New England Witch --; 4. “The More Women, the More Witches”: Gender and Witchcraft --; 5. “There Was Some Mischief in It”: The Social Context of Witchcraft --; 6. “Very Awful and Amazing”: Witch Panics and the Bewitched --; 7. “According to God’s Law”: Witch Hunting as a Judicial Process --; Conclusion: The Case of Ann Burt and Witch-Hunting in the English Atlantic --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501751066; 9783110690460; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704730; 9783110704525
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501751066?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paul B. Moyer.

In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a trans-Atlantic perspective. Moyer provides an accessible and comprehensive examination of witch prosecutions in the Puritan colonies that discusses how their English inhabitants understood the crime of witchcraft, why some people ran a greater risk of being accused of occult misdeeds, and how gender intersected with witch-hunting.Focusing on witchcraft cases in New England between roughly 1640 and 1670, Detestable and Wicked Arts highlights ties between witch-hunting in the New and Old Worlds. Informed by studies on witchcraft in early modern Europe, Moyer presents a useful synthesis of scholarship on occult crime in New England and makes new and valuable contributions to the field.