[PDF.34ja] Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy

Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy

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 | #844408 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2007-10-31 |  2007-09-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.92 x1.03 x5.94l,1.13 | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Strange and Troubling History|By sandy mcc|“Witchfinders” is a strange and troubling history of what warfare, religious fervor, neighborly intolerance and superstition can whip up in a community. It’s the fascinating tale of two basically self-appointed “witchfinders” who plied the roadways of England to seek out and cause the executions of more|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Salem, Massachusetts, 1692: discussions of witch hunts generally begin and end then and there. However, as Gaskill, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, reveals, witch hunts are not unique to this side of the Atlantic

By spring 1645, two years of civil war had exacted a dreadful toll upon England. People lived in terror as disease and poverty spread, and the nation grew ever more politically divided. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne, exploited the anxiety and lawlessness of the time and initiated a brutal campaign to drive out the presumed evil in their midst. Touring Suffolk and East Anglia on horseback, they detected demons and...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy   |  Malcolm Gaskill. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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