Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England - Hardcover

Demos, John Putnam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195031318 ISBN 13: 9780195031317

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1982

Synopsis

Focusing on witchcraft reports and trials outside of Salem and utilizing case histories and psychological analyses, this study evaluates the incidents and trials within the context of late-17th-century New England.

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Review:

"Well written and easy to read...More than a history of witchcraft. It is placed within the wider social context and is thus a history of early New England culture....Very well documented."--History. "Well written and easy to read...More than a history of witchcraft. It is placed within the wider social context and is thus a history of early New England culture....Very well documented."--History. "Well written and easy to read...More than a history of witchcraft. It is placed within the wider social context and is thus a history of early New England culture....Very well documented."--History. "Well written and easy to read...More than a history of witchcraft. It is placed within the wider social context and is thus a history of early New England culture....Very well documented."--History.

About the Author:

John Putnam Demos is Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony and The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0195031318
• ISBN 13: 9780195031317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 558