Carnegie pub sep 2012 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a lively and readable style, Christine Goodier provides a who's who of the events, and an interesting angle on the trials themselves. She emphasizes that the accused were merely flesh and blood, not demons, arguing that they were poor, uneducated people who were at worst misguided. A terrible injustice was done 400 years ago when they were famously convicted of witchcraft and hanged.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Jennet Preston lies heavy upon me, ' cried Thomas Lister on his deathbed. We are told that his corpse bled when she touched it . and Jennet was convicted of witchcraft. Was there really a satanic coven on Pendle side Or was Jennet framed by Lister's son And were the other 'witches' actually caught up in a much broader and more disturbing pattern of religious persecution In this best-selling account, Jonathan Lumby presents a remarkable series of new insights. By placing the events in their wider European context, he explains far more satisfactorily than ever before exactly why these disturbing events occurred.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For more than three centuries the port was at the very heart of Liverpool's story. Foreign trade was the lifeblood of the economy, and the docks were full of ships from around the world. The people who found employment in Liverpool's docks generally lived close to their work, and the dockland communities inshore were just as vibrant, noisy and jam-packed as the docks themselves. Brian Towers was ideally placed to write this book. A university professor whose own parents were killed in the Blitz, he was brought up in the Scotland Road area by his grandmother, Lizzie. This book tells the story of the rise and fall of the working communities of Liverpool's docklands with rare insight, clarity and sensitivity.…