Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches (Exeter Studies in History) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches (Exeter Studies in History) Book

This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge and demonologist. It provides hitherto unpublished and inaccessible material from the legal documentation of the trials in a way that makes the material fully comprehensible, as well as full texts of the pamphlet News from Scotland and James' Demonology, all in a readable, modernised, scholarly form. Full introductory sections and supporting notes provide information about the contexts needed to understand the texts: court politics, social history and culture, religious changes, law and the workings of the court, and the history of witchcraft prosecutions in Scotland before 1590. The book also brings to bear on this material current scholarship on the history of European witchcraft.Read More

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    A modernized edition of the Daemonologie the pamphlet Newes from Scotland and manuscript material related to the trials of the North Berwick witches. The introduction places the trials in the context of Renaissance thought and culture and reviews their importance in 16th-century Scotland.

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    King James' treatise was written at a period of dramatic change in Scottish witchcraft and after a period of intense prosecution in Scotland. It was republished in England in the year of James' accession to the English throne. This book offers a modernized, glossed and fully annotated edition of the "Daemonologie", the pamphlet "Newes from Scotland" and of manuscript material related to the trials of the North Berwick witches not available previously on print or only in early 19th-century editions. A substantial introduction reviews the importance of the trials in the last decade of the 16th century in Scotland, places them in the context of Renaissance thought and culture, and locates the King's treatise in the context of the contemporary demonological discussion to which the "Daemonologie" provided a useful introduction. Full annotations are provided.

  • 085989388X
  • 9780859893886
  • Lawrence Normand, Gareth Roberts
  • 1 December 2000
  • University of Exeter Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 480
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