Witchcraft : a history in thirteen trials
Gibson, Marion, 1970-2024
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Professor Marion Gibson uses thirteen significant trials to tell the global history of witchcraft and witch-hunts. As well as exploring the origins of witch-hunts through some of the most famous trials from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, it takes us in new and surprising directions. Three women were prosecuted under a version of the 1735 Witchcraft Act as recently as 2018. Professor Gibson also tells the stories of the 'witches' - mostly women like Helena Scheuberin, Anny Sampson and Joan Wright, whose stories have too often been overshadowed by those of the powerful men, such as King James I and 'Witchfinder General' Matthew Hopkins, who hounded them.
Main title:
Witchcraft : a history in thirteen trials / Marion Gibson.
Author:
Gibson, Marion, 1970-, author
Imprint:
London : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
Collation:
xxii, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781398508538 (pbk)
Dewey class:
133.4309
LC class:
BF1566
Local class:
133.43
Language:
English
BRN:
3944859