Witchcraft and the Act of 1604 / / edited by John Newton and Jo Bath.

• Superior document: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 131
• TeilnehmendeR: Newton, John, 1973-; Bath, Jo.
• 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.

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...

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.