Witchcraft and the Act of 1604 / / edited by John Newton and Jo Bath.
The essays in this volume examine the relationship of the Jacobean Witchcraft Act to the culture and society of seventeenth-century England. The book explores the potential influence of King James’s works and person on the framing of the Act, including the relationship of Shakespeare's MacBeth...
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Superior document: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 131 |
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Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;
v. 131. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Notes: | Based on a conference held in Mar. 2004 at St. John's College, Durham. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / John Newton and Jo Bath
- Introduction: Witchcraft; Witch Codes; Witch Act / John Newton
- The New King and the Crucible of the Act King James’s Experience of Witches, and the 1604 English Witchcraft Act / P.G. Maxwell-Stuart
- Standing within the Prospect of Belief: Macbeth, King James, and Witchcraft / Roy Booth
- Witchcraft and Possession at the Accession of James I: The Publication of Samuel Harsnett’s Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures / Clive Holmes
- (Re)possession of Dispossession: John Darrell and Diabolical Discourse / Tom Webster
- England Under the Act Applying the Act of 1604: Witches in Essex, Northamptonshire and Lancashire / Marion Gibson
- The Treatment of Potential Witches in North-East England, c. 1649–1680 / Jo Bath
- Witchcraft and Stage Spectacle: / Chris Brooks
- Witchcraft, Emotion and Imagination in the English Civil War / Malcolm Gaskill
- The Passing of the Act The Politics of Pandaemonium / Jonathan Barry
- Decriminalising the Witch: The Origin of and Response to the 1736 Witchcraft Act / Owen Davies
- Appendix I. The Witchcraft Act of 1563 (5 Eliz I, c. 16.) / John Newton and Jo Bath
- Appendix II. The Witchcraft Act of 1604 (1 Jas. I, c. 12.) / John Newton and Jo Bath
- Appendix III. Canon 72 of the Church of England (1604) / John Newton and Jo Bath
- Appendix IV. The Witchcraft Act of 1736 (9 Geo. II, c. 5.) / John Newton and Jo Bath
- Index / John Newton and Jo Bath.