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Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions, 228) - Softcover

Gaskill, Malcolm (Reader In Early Mod. . .

 
9780199236954: Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions, 228)
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ISBN 10: 019923695X ISBN 13: 9780199236954
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Take a long historical perspective, from the ancient world to contemporary paganism, and explore the modern memory and reinvention of witchcraft--as history, religion, fiction, and metaphor.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Malcolm Gaskill is Reader in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. Until 2007, he was Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge, before which he lectured at three other UK universities. An expert in the history of witchcraft, he has written extensively about beliefs, accusations, trials, and confessions, as well as about modern spiritualism. He is the author of three other books: Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (2000) - shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year award, 2000; Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches (2001); and Witchfinders: a Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy (2005). In 2009 he was a Mayers Fellow at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and is currently writing a book about English mentalities in seventeenth-century America. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
019923695X
ISBN 13 
9780199236954
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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