A Defence of Witchcraft Belief: A Sixteenth-Century Response to Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft Pudney Eric
A Defence of Witchcraft Belief: A Sixteenth-Century Response to Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft Pudney Eric This is the first published edition of a fascinating manuscript on witchcraft in…
Specifikacia A Defence of Witchcraft Belief: A Sixteenth-Century Response to Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft Pudney Eric
A Defence of Witchcraft Belief: A Sixteenth-Century Response to Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft Pudney Eric
This is the first published edition of a fascinating manuscript on witchcraft in the collection of the British Library, written by an unknown sixteenth-century scholar. It highlights in detail the scriptural and theological justifications for a belief in witches, covering ground that may well have been considered too sensitive for print publications and presenting learned arguments not found in any other contemporary English work. Responding to a pre-publication draft of Reginald Scot's sceptical Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), the treatise represents the most detailed defence of witchcraft belief to be written in the early modern period in England.
This edition, which includes a comprehensive analytical introduction, presents the treatise with Consequently, it offers a unique insight into elite witchcraft belief dating from the very beginning of the English witchcraft debate.