Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction

Name: Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction
SKU: 9780199236954
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By (author) Malcolm Gaskill,

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Throughout history, to the present day, witchcraft raises questions about the distinction between reality and fantasy, faith and proof. This Very Short Introduction explores witchcraft, both as a contemporary phenomenon and a historical subject. It looks at witch-beliefs and accusations around the world, from pre-history to the present.

SKU: 9780199236954

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ISBN: 9780199236954

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 160

Dimensions: 11.5 × 1 × 17.4 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 160 pages
Dimensions 11.5 × 1 × 17.4 cm | 149
Publication Date 25 March 2010
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country United Kingdom

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Malcolm Gaskill

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Malcolm Gaskill is Reader in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. Until 2007, he was Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge, before which he lectured at three other UK universities. An expert in the history of witchcraft, he has written extensively about beliefs, accusations, trials, and confessions, as well as about modern spiritualism. He is t he author of three other books: Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (2000) - shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year award, 2000; Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches (2001); and Witchfinders: a Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy (2005). In 2009 he was a Mayers Fellow at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and is currently writing a book about English mentalities in seventeenth-century America. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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