Witchcraft at Salem

Hansen, Chadwick

ISBN 10: 0807616125 / ISBN 13: 9780807616123

Editore: Braziller Books, 1985

Dust jacket in good condition. Fourth printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Previous owner's signature on front free end page. Moderate loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery. Codice articolo 1271067895

Riassunto:

Much has been written about the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692, and much has been misunderstood. "The more I studied the documents of what actually took place in the community, "writes Chadwich Hansen, "the more I found myself in opposition to the traditional interpretations. It seems to me that a serious consideration was in order." He argues, for instance, that witchcraft was actually practiced in seventeenth-century New England, as it was in Europe at the same time. Moreover, the behavior of the afflicted persons was not fraudulent, as some have claimed, but pathological: these people were hysterics in the clinical rather than the popular sense of the term. Further still, the clergy did not inspire or take advantage of the witch hunts as has been charged; on the contrary, they were among the chief opponents of the "mass hysteria." Library Journal called this book, ..".The most important scholarly contribution to the literature of witchcraft to appear in many years."

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Titolo: Witchcraft at Salem
Casa editrice: Braziller Books
Data di pubblicazione: 1985
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: Good