Detestable and Wicked Arts

New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Paul B. Moyer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

294 Seiten

2020
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5105-9 (ISBN)

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In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides an accessible and comprehensive examination of witch prosecutions in the Puritan colonies that discusses how their English inhabitants understood the crime of witchcraft, why some people ran a greater risk of being accused of occult misdeeds, and how gender intersected with witch-hunting.

Focusing on witchcraft cases in New England between roughly 1640 and 1670, Detestable and Wicked Arts highlights ties between witch-hunting in the New and Old Worlds. Informed by studies on witchcraft in early modern Europe, Moyer presents a useful synthesis of scholarship on occult crime in New England and makes new and valuable contributions to the field.

Paul B. Moyer is Professor of History at SUNY Brockport. He is the author of Wild Yankees and The Public Universal Friend.

Introduction: The Devil in New England

1. "Hanged for a Witch": Witch-Hunting in New England before 1670

2. "Being Instigated by the Devil": The Crime of Witchcraft

3. "A Forward, Discontented Frame of Spirit": The New England Witch

4. "The More Women, the More Witches": Gender and Witchcraft

5. "There Was Some Mischief in It": The Social Context of Witchcraft

6. "Very Awful and Amazing": Witch Panics and the Bewitched

7. "According to God's Law": Witch-Hunting as a Judicial Process

Conclusion: The Case of Ann Burt and Witch-Hunting in the English Atlantic

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	19 Halftones, black and white; 1 Charts; 6 Maps
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	1-5017-5105-0 / 1501751050
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-5105-9 / 9781501751059
Zustand	Neuware