Drawing on new archival findings and challenging current orthodoxies, these essays by leading historians offer a variety of original perspectives, locating English events firmly within a 'three kingdoms' context.
Witchcraft and Possession at the Accession of James I
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Witchcraft and the Act of 1604
This volume examines both the events that shaped the Jacobean Witchcraft Act, and its subsequent impact on the culture and society of seventeenth-century England until its repeal in 1736.
Body, Mind & Spirit
The Case of Joan Peterson
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2011 British Legal History Conference.
A white witch judicially murdered for getting involved in a complex inter-family dispute among the heirs of 'rich' Sir Peter van Lore
