Languages of Witchcraft

STUART CLARK is Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea.

Preface.- Notes of Contributors.- Introduction; S. ClarkPART 1: HISTORY AND STORY IN WITCHCRAFT TRIALS.- Texts of Authority: Witchcraft Accusations and the Demonstration of Truth in Early Modern England; P. Rushton.- Understanding Witchcraft; M. Gibson.- Witches and Witnesses in Old and New England; M. Gaskill.- Sounds of Silence: Fairies and Incest in Scottish Witchcraft Stories; D. Purkiss.- PART 2: CONTEXTS OF WITCHCRAFT.- Towards a Politics of Witchcraft in Early Modern England; P. Elmer.- The Religion of Reginald Scot; D. Wootton.- Hell Upon Earth or the Language of the Playhouse; J. Barry.- PART 3: HOW CONTEMPORARIES READ WITCHCRAFT.- Circling the Devil: Witch-doctors and Magic Healers in Early Modern Lorraine; R. Briggs.- Witchcraft as Metaphor: Infanticide and its Translations in Aragon in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; M. Tausiet.- Witchcraft and Forensic Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Germany; T. Robisheaux.- Reasoning with Unreason: Visions, Witchcraft and Madness in Early Modern England; K. Hodgkin.- Index.