Detestable and Wicked Arts : : New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World / / 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 th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 p.) :; 19 b&w halftones, 6 maps, 1 chart |
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Table of Contents:
- 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