Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England

Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England

Bladen, Victoria; Harmes, Marcus

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2024

250

Mole

9781032925202

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Introduction: the intersections of supernatural and secular power, Victoria Bladen and Marcus Harmes. Part I Magic at Court: John Dee, alchemy and authority in Elizabethan England, Glyn Parry; Reginald Scot and the circles of power: witchcraft, anti-catholicism and faction politics, Pierre Kapitaniak; Treasonous Catholic magic and the 1563 witchcraft legislation: the English state's response to Catholic conjuring in the early years of Elizabeth I's reign, Michael Devine. Part II Performance, Text and Language: Shaping supernatural identity in The Witch of Edmonton (1621), Victoria Bladen; 'Mong'st the furies finde just recompence': suicide and the supernatural in William Sampson's The Vow Breaker (1636), Fiona Martin; 'You shal reade marvellous straunge things': Ludwig Lavater and the hauntings of the Reformation, Catherine Stevens; The politics of supernatural wonders in Paradise Lost, Martin Dawes. Part III Witchcraft, the Devil and the Body: The Devil and bishops in Post-Reformation England, Marcus Harmes; Sleeping with devils: the sexual witch in 17th-century England, Charlotte-Rose Millar. Index.
henry;goodcole;reginald;scot;witchcra;trials;ludwig;lavater;wonderfull;discoverie;Book III;Charles II's Coronation;Young Man;Henri III;TNA;King Edward III;Wonderfull Discoverie;Witchcraft Pamphlets;Satan's Case;Catholic Exorcists;De Quadra;Goodcole's Pamphlet;Keith Omas;Edmonton Community;Henry Goodcole;Vow Breaker;Vp;Witchcra Trials;Capital Punishment;English Witchcraft Pamphlets;Lavater's Argument;Non-penetrative Sexual Acts;Restoration Readers;Female Witches;Moll Cutpurse