Author: Gibson, Marion
Title: Reading Witchcraft. Stories of Early English Witches.
Description: London, Routledge, 1999, Paperback, 242 pp., zgan. Exploring the stories told by and about witches and their victims , this text questions what can be recovered from their trial records, early news books, pamphlets and personal accounts. In her wide-ranging selection of original sources, Marion Gibson seeks to discover the truthfulness of stories of witchcraft. Who told them and why? How were they recorded? And how might they have been distorted or stereotyped? This book looks closely at these legal documents and printed pamphlets and shows that their representations of witchcraft are far from straightforward. Even the simplest story can mask a complex creative process which sometimes led to the deaths of innocent people. We are left with a record of the power of the human imagination.. ISBN: 97804212
Keywords: Geschiedenis
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Title: Reading Witchcraft. Stories of Early English Witches.
Description: London, Routledge, 1999, Paperback, 242 pp., zgan. Exploring the stories told by and about witches and their victims , this text questions what can be recovered from their trial records, early news books, pamphlets and personal accounts. In her wide-ranging selection of original sources, Marion Gibson seeks to discover the truthfulness of stories of witchcraft. Who told them and why? How were they recorded? And how might they have been distorted or stereotyped? This book looks closely at these legal documents and printed pamphlets and shows that their representations of witchcraft are far from straightforward. Even the simplest story can mask a complex creative process which sometimes led to the deaths of innocent people. We are left with a record of the power of the human imagination.. ISBN: 97804212
Keywords: Geschiedenis
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- Book number: 184216989
- Book number: 184216989
See more books from our catalog: Spiritualiteit