Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award
Witch-Hunting in Scotland presents a fresh perspective on the trial and execution of the hundreds of women and men prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft, an offence that involved the alleged practice of maleficent magic and the worship of the devil, for inflicting harm on their neighbours and making pacts with the devil.
Brian P. Levack draws on law, politics and religion to explain the intensity of Scottish witch-hunting. Topics discussed include:
This original survey combines broad interpretations of the rise and fall of Scottish witchcraft prosecutions with detailed case studies of specific witch-hunts. Witch-Hunting in Scotland makes fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in witchcraft or in the political, legal and religious history of the early modern period.
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‘Brian Levack has once again produced an eminently readable and accessible book on witch-hunting which will be a boon to all who teach the subject’ – Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Brian P. Levack is the John Green Regents Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications on the history of witchcraft include The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd ed., 2006), The Witchcraft Sourcebook (2004) and Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1999).
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