Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland, Paperback - Lawrence Normand

DescriptionThis volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the bes...

Witchcraft in Early Modern England provides a fascinating introduction to the history of witches and witchcraft in England from the sixteenth to th...

Uses court records to re-evaluate women's economic roles in early modern Scotland. -- .

A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingd...

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Reducere. In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides a...

Reducere. Witchcraft in Early North America investigates European, African, and Indian witchcraft beliefs and their expression in colonial America. Alison Ga...

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DescriptionThis edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 2 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 2...

The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written...

Designed for students and scholars and anyone with an interest in Shakespeare and Renaissance England, this book examines the role of the child in ...

This provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the 'information revolution' over the period 1450-1700, when changes in the generation...

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In early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms, shaping ideas about the challenges of interpretation, and negoti...

The only book that comprehensively studies the soliloquy's history and diversity of form, its theatrical functions, rhetoric, and socio-cultural si...

Anderson critically analyses the evidence available from regnal lists and Irish annals of the 6th to 9th centuries, to shed new light on the kingdo...

This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that e...

John Christopoulos provides a comprehensive account of abortion in early modern Italy. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives...

This edited volume examines the role of religion in diplomacy in early modern Europe since the Reformations. It addresses three main areas where qu...

This innovative, interdisciplinary collection addresses religion and the life course in England c. 1550-1800. Considering Catholic, Protestant and ...

A lush portrait introducing one of the most important Japanese artists of the Edo periodPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Frank FeltensNum...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressNumber of pages: 304Collection: Edinburgh Studies in LawPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 165 x 239 x 29Cover ...

Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Weste...

This volume brings together some of the top scholars in the field, to investigate how sculptors and patrons dealt with the practical and esoteric i...

This book nuances the picture of domestic servants constructed by both early modern moralists and modern scholarship. It argues that domestic trage...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Judith HudsonNumber of pages: 256Collection: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance CulturePubli...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Claudia SwanIllustration(s): 85 color illus.Number of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 2...

This new edition of Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey has been thoroughly updated with significant changes designed to reflect the newest schola...

Illustrates the complex ways in which biblical women's narratives could be reimagined for a variety of rhetorical and religious purposes -- .

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Galvani and Volta underwent two revolutions. This text is concerned with the revolution in published communications and in its research, aims to sh...

From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, M...

The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England - Ethan H. Shagan

A text for all primary trainees in Scotland to help them fully prepare for their placements and make the most of their school-based experience.Publ...

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A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

Shakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare's dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) important context: the hundreds of plays known ...

The preeminent historian Ying-shih Yu offers a magisterial examination of religious and cultural influences in the development of China's early mod...

Reducere. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing toge...

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

Peacey unearths and reconstructs a strange early modern dispute over a small estate in Gloucestershire that was contested over a period of 160 year...

DescriptionThis fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to reflect ...

Bringing together intellectual history, international political thought and international law, Schroeder explores the extent to which seventeenth-c...

Defines the economic history of early modern Britain. This book describes about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing ...