Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy
By spring 1645, two years of civil war had exacted a dreadful toll upon England. People lived in terror as disease and poverty spread, and the nation grew ever more politically divided. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne, exploited the anxiety and lawlessness of the time and initiated a brutal campaign to drive out the presumed evil in their midst. Touring Suffolk and East Anglia on horseback, they detected demons and idolators everywhere. Through torture, they extracted from terrified prisoners confessions of consorting with Satan and demonic spirits. Acclaimed historian Malcolm Gaskill rete…
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- ISBN: 978-0-674-02542-4
- EAN: 9780674025424
- Produktnummer: 3029250
- Verlag: Harvard Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 364 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.6 cm 513 g
- Gewicht: 513
Über den Autor
Malcolm Gaskill is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, where he is Director of Studies in History.
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