{"product_id":"witchcraft-in-early-modern-scotland-9780859893886","title":"Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge and demonologist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWitchcraft in Early Modern Scotland will be immensely useful for scholars of witchcraft, demonology, early modern women, as well as those who study Scottish political, religious, legal, and social history. The contextual information in Part One is clearly presented and accessible for scholars with only a cursory knowledge of early modern Scotland; and detailed annotations of the documents make them readily comprehensible for readers unfamiliar with Scots dialect. The book is a case-study that becomes cultural history ... Such rich and carefully read evidence of intimate interactions between members of elite and popular cultures makes an important contribution to our understanding of sixteenth-century social history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlbion\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol.34, Issue 2, Summer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume provides readers, especially students, with what is too often lacking in early modern history: a self-contained case study based on primary sources ... However, the authors have done more than provide the raw material of these trials as a case study. They preface each document with a useful introduction while avoiding the temptation to lead the reader in the interpretation of them. The documents also have footnotes relating to vocabulary and endnotes on textual matters arising from the originals. Both are extremely helpful ... While one might be tempted to conclude that the publication of a complete set of witch trials is accomplishment enough, this volume expands upon this by including a detailed set of introductory chapters. These set out, clearly and concisely, the context in which the trials were prosecuted ... This volume is to be commended for providing those interested not only in witchcraft but also witch-hunting with a single, self-contained case study rich in detail. Students, in particular, will find much food for thought in these original documents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScottish Economic and Social History\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 21, Part 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is, altogether, a remarkable achievement, combining the best standards of traditional textual scholarship with an imaginative approach to the subject. For as well as the texts gathered together and so splendidly edited, there is a lengthy introduction which places these texts, and the events which underlay them, in context ... This is a book which will be welcomed, and much used, by the specialist in witchcraft history, which will also be invaluable to teachers and students both of early modern witchcraft and of early modern Scottish history more generally, and which will also be read with profit by those with a more general interest in such matters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArchives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA significant contribution to the history of witchcraft, the history of Scotland, the history of feminism and the history of ideas in general.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 63\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis splendid edition of the documents represents substantial research and will be a welcome addition to the library of all interested in this topic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, Spring\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery so often a very worthwhile book comes along. Such a book provides the reader with an opportunity to examine modern transcriptions of primary sources, accompanied by intelligent commentary, and a well-written scholarly overview of the topics in question. This is such a book. It is a pleasure to read […] This edition of Demonology and other attendant documents should be welcomed by students an scholars who are studying the history of witchcraft in the British Isles.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJane P. Davidson, \u003ci\u003eSixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/i\u003e XXXIII\/3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne is reminded of Arturo Perez Riverte’s novel The Dumas Club (London: Harvill Press, 1996), in which an unscrupulous bibliophile attempts to collate, from minute variants in the illustrations (the vital ones drafted by Lucifer himself) in the only three surviving copies of a legendary demonological treatise, an incantation to raise the Devil himself. Normand and Roberts’ project is a modest one compared to this, but undoubtedly a significant contribution to our understanding of Scottish and European witch belief.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJonathan Murray, \u003ci\u003eScottish Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 4, no. 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is excellent on the edited texts and will prove a very welcome addition for both academics and students to what has been, to date, a rather meagre selection of books on witchcraft in Scotland.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoyce Miller, \u003ci\u003eEdinburgh Review III\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe court and politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esocial contexts and cultural formations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe Kirk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScottish witchcraft before the North Berwich witch hunt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe legal process\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eaftermath.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWitch hunting - examinations, confessions and depositions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecords of the witchcraft trials (Dittays)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etext of the witchcraft trials (Dittays).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWitchhunt propaganda - \"News from Scotland\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etext of\"News from Scotland\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTheorizing the witch hunt - James VI's \"Demonology\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etext of \"Demonology\".\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix: Privy Council Orders relating to the legal processes of witch trials.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406343872855,"sku":"9780859893886","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780859893886.jpg?v=1730495470","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/witchcraft-in-early-modern-scotland-9780859893886","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}