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»Wie man eine Hexe erkennt? - Man muss einfach herausfinden, ob sie einen mächtigen Mann verärgert hat!« Daily Mail In 13 Prozessen aus Geschichte und Gegenwart begegnet Marion Gibson Menschen vom Rande der Gesellschaft, meist Frauen, die als böse und gefährlich abgestempelt, als Hexen angeklagt, verurteilt und nicht selten getötet werden. Die Geschichte hat sie zum Schweigen gebracht, Marion Gibson gibt ihnen ihre Stimmen zurück. Sie erforsc...

A ... global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate the pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history"--

A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate the pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous--like the Salem witch trials--and some lesser-known: on Vardø island, Norway, in the 1620s, where an indigenous ...

A lively and immersive global history of witchcraft which shows its evolution from the Middle Ages to the present day and shines a light on the stories of the victims, told in thirteen trials.

The first complete history of the neglected St Osyth witch-trial, this book tells the compelling, revelatory story of a community ripped asunder. It hauntingly reveals the lost worlds of Elizabethan villagers caught up in persecution, the magistrate who investigated their accusations of witchcraft and the writer who published their story.

Tells a story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic possessions and exorcisms, this book highlights the existence of controversies in print in the late Elizabethan period of the kind that would one day lead to civil war.

Tells a story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic possessions and exorcisms, this book highlights the existence of controversies in print in the late Elizabethan period of the kind that would one day lead to civil war.

A lively and immersive global history of witchcraft which shows its evolution from the Middle Ages to the present day and shines a light on the stories of the victims, told in thirteen trials.

A lively and immersive global history of witchcraft which shows its evolution from the Middle Ages to the present day and shines a light on the stories of the victims, told in thirteen trials.

A collection of materials, including works of literature as well as historical documents, this work provides a broad view of how witches and magicians were represented in print and manuscript. It presents the voices of "witches, " accusers, ministers, physicians, poets, dramatists, magistrates, and witchfinders from both sides of the Atlantic.

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International customary law prescribes a minimum standard of treatment with which all nations must accord--aliens are entitled to "life, liberty, and property" while resident outside their own country. Based on a first-hand examination of original sources, this survey shows that, while the United States has carefully maintained its sovereign right to control and limit the immigration of aliens, it has been very generous to those within its gat...

Witchcraft: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft. It explores the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through to the modern day, and uses case studies to analyse the roles of culture, religion, gender, social hierarchy, governance and more in witchcraft throughout history.

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Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft traces witchcraft from the 16th and 17th centuries through to the present day. It explores a series of case studies across ¿Witchcraft studies' looking to history, literature, politcs and journalism to understand the complex fascination with witchcraft through the ages. This book will be essential reading for all students of witchcraft and early modern history and literature.

Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft traces witchcraft from the 16th century through to today, exploring material across `Witchcraft studies¿, covering literature, politics and journalism to investigate the fascination with witchcraft through history. This book is essential reading for students of witchcraft, early modern history and literature.

The sixteen examples collected here describe fifteen English witchcraft cases in detail, vividly recreating events to give the reader the illusion of actually being present at witchcraft accusations, trials and hangings. But how much are we, as readers, victims of literary manipulation by the authors of these texts, and by accusers, magistrates and witches themselves? Some of the writing collected here appear in print for the first time in thr...

Imagining the Pagan Past explores the pagan stories of Britain's past. From the Middle Ages to the present, Marion Gibson explores the ways in which British pagan gods and goddesses have been represented in poetry, novels, plays, chronicles, scientific and scholarly writing. From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare to John Dryden and H.G. Wells to Naomi Mitchison it explores RomanoBritish, Celtic and AngloSaxon deities ...

This title explores stories of Britain's pagan history. These tales have been characterized by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. The book shows how important these stories are to the history of British culture, taking the reader on a lively tour from prehistory to the present.