Witchcraft Witch Hunting and Politics in Early Modern England 1st Edition by Elmer 0191027529 9780191027529

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• ISBN 10: 0191027529
• ISBN 13: 9780191027529
• Author: Elmer

Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England constitutes a wide-ranging and original overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of archives, both local and national, it seeks to relate the rise and decline of belief in witchcraft, alongside the legal prosecution of witches, to the wider political culture of the period. Building on the seminal work of scholars such as Stuart Clark, Ian Bostridge, and Jonathan Barry, Peter Elmer demonstrates how learned discussion of witchcraft, as well as the trials of those suspected of the crime, were shaped by religious and political imperatives in the period from the passage of the witchcraft statute of 1563 to the repeal of the various laws on witchcraft. In the process, Elmer sheds new light upon various issues relating to the role of witchcraft in English society, including the problematic relationship between puritanism and witchcraft as well as the process of decline.

Table of contents:

1: Introduction

2: Witchcraft, Religion, and the State in Elizabethan and Jacobean England

WITCHCRAFT AND THE ELIZABETHAN SETTLEMENT

REGINALD SCOT’S DISCOVERIE OF WITCHCRAFT (1584): A CASE STUDY IN THE POLITICS OF SCEPTICISM

PURITANISM AND WITCHCRAFT: THE CASE OF PRE-CIVIL WAR ESSEX

THE POLITICS OF WITCH-HUNTING IN EARLY JACOBEAN ENGLAND: THE CASE OF ANNE GUNTER

THE MYTH OF THE WITCH-HUNTING PURITAN

3: Witchcraft in an Age of Rebellion, 1625–1649

INTRODUCTION

THE DECLINE OF WITCH-HUNTING IN PRE-CIVIL WAR ENGLAND

WITCHCRAFT, PROVIDENTIALISM, AND THE PERSONAL RULE OF CHARLES I

THE WITCH AS REBEL: WITCHCRAFT, POLITICAL APOSTASY, AND SUPPORT FOR THE CROWN IN CIVIL WAR ENGLAND

THE GODLY RESPONSE: WITCHCRAFT, SPIRITUAL APOSTASY, AND PURITAN OPPOSITION TO THE CAROLINE CHURCH AN

THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL ROOTS OF WITCH-HUNTING IN EAST ANGLIA: THE HOPKINS TRIALS, 1645–47

THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE HOPKINS TRIALS

4: Witchcraft in an Age of Political Uncertainty: Interregnum England, 1649–1660

INTRODUCTION

WITCHCRAFT, WITCH-HUNTING, AND THE POLITICS OF SECTARIANISM

THE POLITICS OF INTERREGNUM SCEPTICISM: ROBERT FILMER AND THOMAS ADY

5: Redrawing the Boundaries of the Confessional State: Witchcraft, Dissent, and Latitudinarianism in

INTRODUCTION

DISPOSSESSING THE NATION: THE RESTORATION AS AN ACT OF EXORCISM

PROVIDENCE, POLITICS, AND RESTORATION DISSENT

WITCHCRAFT, DEMONOLOGY, AND RESTORATION DISSENT

WITCHCRAFT, MEDICINE, AND DISSENT

SPIRITUAL PHYSIC, WITCHCRAFT, AND DISSENT

SEARCHING FOR CONSENSUS: LATITUDINARIANISM, DISSENT, AND PROOF OF WITCHCRAFT IN RESTORATION ENGLAND

GLANVILL’S SADUCISMUS TRIUMPHATUS (1682): DEMONOLOGY AND LATITUDINARIAN MANIFESTO

‘THE DEVIL IS A NAME FOR A BODY POLITICK’ : WITCHCRAFT, MODERATION, AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CO

6: ‘Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft’: Anglicanism, the State, and the Decline of Witchcraf

INTRODUCTION

REFRAMING THE DEBATE ABOUT WITCHCRAFT IN ANGLICAN CIRCLES

WITCHCRAFT, POLITICS, AND LINGUISTIC INSTABILITY

RESTORATION ANGLICANISM, MAGISTRACY, AND THE DECLINE OF WITCHCRAFT

MEDICINE, MADNESS, AND THE DECLINE OF WITCHCRAFT

ANGLICANISM, THE RESTORATION CHURCH, AND THE DEATH OF PROVIDENCE

7: Witchcraft, Enthusiasm, andthe Rage of Party: The Politics of Decline in Late Seventeenth and Ear

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