Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction
Explores witchcraft both as a contemporary phenomenon and as a historical subject, challenging false assumptions and providing stories and examples of witchcraft from different times.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-923695-4
- EAN: 9780199236954
- Produktnummer: 5490342
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Masse: H17.5 cm x B11.1 cm x D1.0 cm 146 g
- Abbildungen: 15 black and white halftones
- Gewicht: 146
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Malcolm Gaskill is Reader in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. Until 2007, he was Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge, before which he lectured at three other UK universities. An expert in the history of witchcraft, he has written extensively about beliefs, accusations, trials, and confessions, as well as about modern spiritualism. He is the author of three other books: Crime and Mentalities in EarlyModern England (2000) - shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year award, 2000; Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches (2001); and Witchfinders: a Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy (2005). In 2009 he was a Mayers Fellow at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and iscurrently writing a book about English mentalities in seventeenth-century America. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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