Languages of witchcraft: narrative, ideology and meaning in early modern culture
Abstract
Preface Notes of Contributors Introduction S. Clark PART 1: HISTORY AND STORY IN WITCHCRAFT TRIALS Texts of Authority: Witchcraft Accusations and the Demonstration of Truth in Early Modern England P. Rushton Understanding Witchcraft M. Gibson Witches and Witnesses in Old and New England M. Gaskill Sounds of Silence: Fairies and Incest in Scottish Witchcraft Stories D. Purkiss PART 2: CONTEXTS OF WITCHCRAFT Towards a Politics of Witchcraft in Early Modern England P. Elmer The Religion of Reginald Scot D. Wootton Hell Upon Earth or the Language of the Playhouse J. Barry PART 3: HOW CONTEMPORARIES READ WITCHCRAFT Circling the Devil: Witch-doctors and Magic Healers in Early Modern Lorraine R. Briggs Witchcraft as Metaphor: Infanticide and its Translations in Aragon in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries M. Tausiet Witchcraft and Forensic Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Germany T. Robisheaux Reasoning with Unreason: Visions, Witchcraft and Madness in Early Modern England K. Hodgkin Index