Witchcraft And Whigs
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Author |
: Andrew Sneddon |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2017-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526130716 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526130718 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witchcraft and Whigs by : Andrew Sneddon
This ground-breaking biography of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1669-1739) provides a detailed and rare portrait of an early eighteenth century Irish bishop and witchcraft theorist. Drawing upon a wealth of printed primary source material, the book aims to increase our understanding of the eighteenth-century established clergy, both in England and Ireland. It illustrates how one of the main sceptical texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Historical essay concerning witchcraft (1718), was constructed and how it fitted into the wider intellectual and literary context of the time, examining Hutchinson’s views on contemporary debates concerning modern prophecy and miracles, demonic and Satanic intervention, the nature of Angels and hell, and astrology. This book will be of particular interest to academics and students in the areas of history of witchcraft, and the religious, political and social history of Britain and Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Author |
: Andrew Sneddon |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0719096782 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780719096785 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witchcraft and Whigs by : Andrew Sneddon
This ground-breaking biography of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1669–1739) provides a detailed and rare portrait of an early eighteenth century Irish bishop and witchcraft theorist. Drawing upon a wealth of printed primary source material, the book aims to increase our understanding of the eighteenth-century established clergy, both in England and Ireland. It illustrates how one of the main sceptical texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Historical essay concerning witchcraft (1718), was constructed and how it fitted into the wider intellectual and literary context of the time, examining Hutchinson's views on contemporary debates concerning modern prophecy and miracles, demonic and Satanic intervention, the nature of Angels and hell, and astrology. This book will be of particular interest to academics and students of history of witchcraft, and the religious, political and social history of Britain and Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Author |
: Peter Elmer |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198717720 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198717725 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England by : Peter Elmer
Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England constitutes a wide-ranging and original overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of archives, both local and national, it seeks to relate the rise and decline of belief in witchcraft, alongside the legal prosecution of witches, to the wider political culture of the period. Building on the seminal work of scholars such as Stuart Clark, Ian Bostridge, and Jonathan Barry, Peter Elmer demonstrates how learned discussion of witchcraft, as well as the trials of those suspected of the crime, were shaped by religious and political imperatives in the period from the passage of the witchcraft statute of 1563 to the repeal of the various laws on witchcraft. In the process, Elmer sheds new light upon various issues relating to the role of witchcraft in English society, including the problematic relationship between puritanism and witchcraft as well as the process of decline.
Author |
: William Gibson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2021-02-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192642905 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192642901 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685-1720 by : William Gibson
Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685-1720 uses the experiences of Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) to examine what life was like in the Church of England for Tory High Church clergy. These clergy felt alienated from the religious and political settlement of 1689 and found themselves facing the growth of religious toleration. They often linked this to a rise in immorality and a sense of the decline in religious values. Samuel Wesley's life saw a series of crises including his decision to leave Dissent and conform to the Church of England, his imprisonment for debt in 1705, his shortcomings as a priest, disagreements with his bishop, his marriage breakdown and the haunting of his rectory by a ghost or poltergeist. Wesley was also a leading member of the Convocation of the Church during the crisis years of 1710-14. In each of these episodes, Wesley's Toryism and High Church principles played a key role in his actions. They also show that the years between 1685 and 1720 were part of a 'long Glorious Revolution' which was not confined to 1688-9. This 'long Revolution' was experienced by Tory High Church clergy as a series of turning points in which the Whig forces strengthened their control of politics and the Church. Using newly discovered sources, and providing fresh insights into the life and work of Samuel Wesley, William Gibson explores the world of the Tory High Church clergy in the period 1685-1720.
Author |
: Jan Machielsen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 2021-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108956734 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108956734 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The War on Witchcraft by : Jan Machielsen
Historians of the early modern witch-hunt often begin histories of their field with the theories propounded by Margaret Murray and Montague Summers in the 1920s. They overlook the lasting impact of nineteenth-century scholarship, in particular the contributions by two American historians, Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) and George Lincoln Burr (1857–1938). Study of their work and scholarly personae contributes to our understanding of the deeply embedded popular understanding of the witch-hunt as representing an irrational past in opposition to an enlightened present. Yet the men's relationship with each other, and with witchcraft sceptics – the heroes of their studies – also demonstrates how their writings were part of a larger war against 'unreason'. This Element thus lays bare the ways scholarly masculinity helped shape witchcraft historiography, a field of study often seen as dominated by feminist scholarship. Such meditation on past practice may foster reflection on contemporary models of history writing.
Author |
: Michael Hunter |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2020-01-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300249460 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300249462 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Decline of Magic by : Michael Hunter
A new history which overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change is usually given to science – and in particular to the scientists of the Royal Society. But is this justified? Michael Hunter argues that those pioneering the change in attitude were not scientists but freethinkers. While some scientists defended the reality of supernatural phenomena, these sceptical humanists drew on ancient authors to mount a critique both of orthodox religion and, by extension, of magic and other forms of superstition. Even if the religious heterodoxy of such men tarnished their reputation and postponed the general acceptance of anti-magical views, slowly change did come about. When it did, this owed less to the testing of magic than to the growth of confidence in a stable world in which magic no longer had a place.
Author |
: Lizanne Henderson |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 2016-04-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137313249 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137313242 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment by : Lizanne Henderson
Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment represents the first in-depth investigation of Scottish witchcraft and witch belief post-1662, the period of supposed decline of such beliefs, an age which has been referred to as the 'long eighteenth century', coinciding with the Scottish Enlightenment. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were undoubtedly a period of transition and redefinition of what constituted the supernatural, at the interface between folk belief and the philosophies of the learned. For the latter the eradication of such beliefs equated with progress and civilization but for others, such as the devout, witch belief was a matter of faith, such that fear and dread of witches and their craft lasted well beyond the era of the major witch-hunts. This study seeks to illuminate the distinctiveness of the Scottish experience, to assess the impact of enlightenment thought upon witch belief, and to understand how these beliefs operated across all levels of Scottish society.
Author |
: Brian P. Levack |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 645 |
Release |
: 2013-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199578160 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199578168 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America by : Brian P. Levack
A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.
Author |
: Andrew Sneddon |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 221 |
Release |
: 2015-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137319173 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137319178 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland by : Andrew Sneddon
This is the first academic overview of witchcraft and popular magic in Ireland and spans the medieval to the modern period. Based on a wide range of un-used and under-used primary source material, and taking account of denominational difference between Catholic and Protestant, it provides a detailed account of witchcraft trials and accusation.
Author |
: Dr Andrew Sneddon |
Publisher |
: The History Press |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2013-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780752480879 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0752480871 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Possessed By the Devil by : Dr Andrew Sneddon
In 1711, in County Antrim, Ireland, eight women were put on trial accused of bewitching and demonically possessing young Mary Dunbar, amid an attack by evil spirits on the local community and the supernatural murder of a clergyman's wife. Mary Dunbar was the star witness in this trial, and the women were, by the standards of the time, believable witches – they dabbled in magic, they smoked, they drank, they had disabilities. A second trial targeted a final male 'witch' and head of the Sellor 'witch family'. With echoes of the Salem witch-hunt, this is a story of murder, of a community in crisis, and of how the witch hunts that claimed over 50,000 lives in Europe played out on Irish shores. It plunges the reader into a world were magic was real and the power of the devil felt, with disastrous consequences.