Witchcraft : A Very Short Introduction

Gaskill, Malcolm

ISBN 10: 019923695X / ISBN 13: 9780199236954

Published by Oxford University Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Witchcraft : A Very Short Introduction
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019923695X
• ISBN 13: 9780199236954
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Take a long historical perspective, from the ancient world to contemporary paganism, and explore the modern memory and reinvention of witchcraft--as history, religion, fiction, and metaphor.

About the Author

Malcolm Gaskill is Reader in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. Until 2007, he was Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge, before which he lectured at three other UK universities. An expert in the history of witchcraft, he has written extensively about beliefs, accusations, trials, and confessions, as well as about modern spiritualism. He is the author of three other books: Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (2000) - shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year award, 2000; Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches (2001); and Witchfinders: a Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy (2005). In 2009 he was a Mayers Fellow at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and is currently writing a book about English mentalities in seventeenth-century America. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.