A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718

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Author

Notestein, Wallace, 1878-1969

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Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes, Meredith Bach, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Subject

Witchcraft -- England -- History

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eBook-No.

31511

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31511

Release Date

March 5, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PRIZE ESSAYS OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
3. 3.1909 — To this Essay was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European History for 1909 — A HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT IN ENGLAND FROM 1558 TO 1718 — BY WALLACE NOTESTEIN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Washington , 1911 — Copyright, 1911 By The American Historical Association Washington, D.C. — THE LORD BALTIMORE PRESS BALTIMORE, M.D., U.S.A.
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — The Beginnings of English Witchcraft.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — Witchcraft under Elizabeth.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — Reginald Scot.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — The Exorcists.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — James I and Witchcraft.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — Notable Jacobean Cases.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — The Lancashire Witches and Charles I.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — Matthew Hopkins.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — Witchcraft during the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. — The Literature of Witchcraft from 1603 to 1660.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — Witchcraft under Charles II and James II.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — Glanvill and Webster and the Literary War over Witchcraft, 1660-1688.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — The Final Decline.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — The Close of the Literary Controversy.
20. 20.A.—PAMPHLET LITERATURE. — § 1.—Witchcraft under Elizabeth ( see ch. II ). — § 2.—The Exorcists ( see ch. IV ). — § 3.—James I and Witchcraft and Notable Jacobean Cases ( see chs. V, VI ). — § 4.—Matthew Hopkins ( see ch. VIII ). — § 5.—Commonwealth and Protectorate ( see ch. IX ). — § 6.—Charles II and James II ( see ch. XI ). — § 7.—The Final Decline, Miscellaneous Pamphlets ( see ch. XIII ). — § 8.—The Surey Pamphlets ( see ch. XIII ). — § 9.—The Wenham Pamphlets ( see ch. XIII ). — § 10.—Criticism of the Northampton and Huntingdon Pamphlets of 1705 and 1716 ( see ch. XIII, note 10 ).
21. 21.B.—LIST OF PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WITCHCRAFT DURING THE REIGN OF JAMES I. — 1.— Charged with Causing Death. — 2.— Not Charged with Causing Death (so far as shown by records). — Mixed Cases.
22. 22.C.—LIST OF CASES OF WITCHCRAFT, 1558-1718, WITH REFERENCES TO SOURCES AND LITERATURE. [1]
23. 23.INDEX.

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