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This book is a timely account of the key period in the history of English witchcraft. It looks at the tensions in church, state and society which caused witchcraft increasingly to be regarded as a threat and to be legislated against in the mid sixteenth century. It then traces the gradual onset of scepticism which led to the abolition of such legislature in the mid eighteenth century.

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From about 1550 to 1750, witchcraft was a subject of serious intellectual debate, punishable as a crime by the courts, and accepted as a reality at all levels of English society. This overview of these two centuries analyses formative attitudes and assumptions under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts. It examines possible explanations for persecution, from misogyny and the anxieties of civil war to economic tensions and local rivalries. It also looks at why increasingly sceptical judges, a changing religious climate and the rise of experimental science eventually led to the decline of belief in witchcraft.
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JAMES SHARPE is senior lecturer in history at the University of York. He has written extensively on the history of crime in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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  • PublisherPenguin
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 0140130659
  • ISBN 13 9780140130652
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