Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in England 1550-1750

Sharpe, James

ISBN 10: 0140130659 ISBN 13: 9780140130652

Verlag: Penguin, 1997

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This book is a timely account of the key period in the history of English witchcraft. It looks at the tensions in church, state and society which caused witchcraft increasingly to be regarded as a threat and to be legislated against in the mid sixteenth century. It then traces the gradual onset of scepticism which led to the abolition of such legislature in the mid eighteenth century.

Biografía del autor:

JAMES SHARPE is senior lecturer in history at the University of York. He has written extensively on the history of crime in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140130659
• ISBN 13: 9780140130652
• Einband: Rústica
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384