The Witches of Warboys: An Extraordinary Story of Innocence and Death in Elizabethan England: An Extraordinary Story of Sorcery, Sadism and Satanic Possession in Elizabethan England - Rilegato

Almond, Philip C.

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ISBN 10: 1845115082 ISBN 13: 9781845115081

Casa editrice: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007

Riassunto

There is no more dramatic story in the annals of English witchcraft than that ofThe Witches of Warboys. On a foggy November day in 1589, when one of the five daughters of Robert and Elizabeth Throckmorton suddenly fell sick, no one in the small English village of Warboys could have predicted the terrifying events that would follow. Or envisaged that four years later, in April 1593, the Throckmortons' neighbors Alice, Agnes and John Samuel, would be dragged before a country court on charges of sorcery, enchantment and murder. With a rich and colorful cast of characters, and a potent mixture of tension and pathos to match anything in the later Salem witch trials, their story is told here in full for the first time . A conflict about honor and truth between two families in a close-knit Elizabethan village, at the heart of the narrative coils a dark account of possession by demons, of malevolent spirits, of trust broken and of children accursed. What really happened in Warboys in the late sixteenth century, to drive this unremarkable rural community into such frenzy? Philip Almond leads us into a half-forgotten world of horror and crime, of victims and victimizers, of spectres, sex with the devil and "scratching" the witch: a macabre and dangerous world where nothing is as it seems, where evil begets evil, and where innocence is betrayed.

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A chillingly convincing narrative...rich, careful and detailed...As a history of culture and ideas, this is excellent...It may be most impressive...as a study of psychology, proving that, however speculatively, it is possible to attribute plausible conscious and subconscious motivations to fairly ordinary people who lived more than 400 years ago Prof Ronald Hutton --BBC History Magazine

L'autore:

Philip C. Almond is Professor Emeritus of Religion at the University of Queensland, and is internationally respected for his work on religion and the history of ideas, especially during the English Enlightenment. His seven previous books include The British Discovery of Buddhism, Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England, Adam and Eve in Seventeenth Century Thought and Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England.

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• Editore: Tauris Academic Studies
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845115082
• ISBN 13: 9781845115081
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 222