Witchcraft in early modern Scotland : James VI's demonology and the North Berwick witches
2000
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Main title:
Witchcraft in early modern Scotland : James VI's demonology and the North Berwick witches / edited by Lawrence Normand & Gareth Roberts.
Imprint:
Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2000.
Collation:
xiii, 454p : ill., facsims. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliography and index.
Contents:
1. The court and politics2. Social contexts and cultural formations3. The Kirk4. Scottish Witchcraft before the North Berwick Witch Hunt5. The legal process6. Aftermath7. Witch hunting: examinations, confessions and depositions8. Records of the Witchcraft trials: Dittays9. Witch hunt propaganda: News from Scotland10. Theorising the Witch hunt: James VI's demonology.
ISBN:
085989388X0859896803 (cased)
Local class:
A13 (WIT)
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
WitchcraftWitch huntingEast LothianWitchesDuncan, GeillisSampson, AgnesThomson, BessieStratton, JanetRobson, DonaldNapier, BarbaraMacCalzean, EuphaneGraham, RitchieKennedy, JanetFian, JohnBothwell, Earl ofWitch trialsAcheson's HavenSeton familySeton PalaceL10668
BRN:
1692354
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