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Book SynopsisThis book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire.
Table of ContentsPreface - Robert Poole
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: the Lancashire witches in historical context - James Sharpe
I. THE TRIALS OF 1612
2. Potts, plots and politics: James I’s Daemonologie and The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches - Stephen Pumfrey
3. Thomas Potts’s ‘dusty memory’: reconstructing justice in The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches - Marion Gibson
4. ‘Those to whom evil is done’: family dynamics in the Pendle witch trials - Jonathan Lumby
II. CONTEXTS: SOCIETY, ECONOMY, RELIGION AND MAGIC
5. Witchcraft, economy and society in the forest of Pendle - John Swain
6. The Reformation in the parish of Whalley - Michael Mullett
7. Beyond Pendle: the ‘lost’ Lancashire witches - Kirsteen Macpherson Bardell
III. REWRITING THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES
8. The pilot’s thumb: Macbeth and the Jesuits - Richard Wilson
9. The Late Lancashire Witches: sexual and spiritual politics in the events of 1633-4 - Alison Findlay
10. The ‘Lancashire novelist’ and the Lancashire witches - Jeffrey Richards
11. Wicca, paganism, and history: contemporary witchcraft and the Lancashire witches - Joanne Pearson
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