Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland
Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland

Author: Lawrence Normand

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2022-03-23

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 1802079300

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This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge and demonologist. It provides hitherto unpublished and inaccessible material from the legal documentation of the trials in a way that makes the material fully comprehensible, as well as full texts of the pamphlet News from Scotland and James' Demonology, all in a readable, modernised, scholarly form. Full introductory sections and supporting notes provide information about the contexts needed to understand the texts: court politics, social history and culture, religious changes, law and the workings of the court, and the history of witchcraft prosecutions in Scotland before 1590. The book also brings to bear on this material current scholarship on the history of European witchcraft.

Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland
Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland

Author: Julian Goodare

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Published: 2008-01-15

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13:

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This book is a collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft. Unlike most such works, it concentrates on witchcraft beliefs rather than witch-hunting. It ranges widely across areas of popular belief, culture, and ritual practice, as well as dealing with intellectual life and incorporating regional and comparative elements. The editors were members of the team responsible for the recently-completed Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, and the book incorporates a number of pioneering findings from this rich online resource.

Witchcraft and belief in Early Modern Scotland
Witchcraft and belief in Early Modern Scotland

Author: J. Goodare

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-12-04

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 023059140X

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This pioneering collection concentrates on witchcraft beliefs rather than witch-hunting. It ranges widely across areas of popular belief, culture and ritual practice, as well as dealing with intellectual life and incorporating regional and comparative elements.

Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe
Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe

Author: A. Rowlands

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-10-22

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0230248373

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Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France.

The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland
The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland

Author: Julian Goodare

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-25

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781526134424

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This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.

The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context
The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context

Author: Julian Goodare

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2002-09-21

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780719060243

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This book is a collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-16th century to the early 18th. It particularly emphasizes the later stages, since scholars are now as keen to explain why witch-hunting declined as why it occurred. There are studies of particular witchcraft panics, including a reassessment of the role of King James VI. The book thus covers a wide range of topics concerned with Scottish witch-hunting - and also places it in the context of other topics: gender relations, folklore, magic and healing, and moral regulation by church and state.

Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment
Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment

Author: Lizanne Henderson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1137313242

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Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment represents the first in-depth investigation of Scottish witchcraft and witch belief post-1662, the period of supposed decline of such beliefs, an age which has been referred to as the 'long eighteenth century', coinciding with the Scottish Enlightenment. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were undoubtedly a period of transition and redefinition of what constituted the supernatural, at the interface between folk belief and the philosophies of the learned. For the latter the eradication of such beliefs equated with progress and civilization but for others, such as the devout, witch belief was a matter of faith, such that fear and dread of witches and their craft lasted well beyond the era of the major witch-hunts. This study seeks to illuminate the distinctiveness of the Scottish experience, to assess the impact of enlightenment thought upon witch belief, and to understand how these beliefs operated across all levels of Scottish society.

The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe
The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe

Author: E. Bever

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-06-11

Total Pages: 643

ISBN-13: 0230582117

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Exploring the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic, through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses, this book complements and challenges existing scholarship, and offers unique insights into this murky aspect of early modern history.

Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

Author: Jonathan Barry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-03-12

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780521638753

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This important collection brings together both established figures and new researchers to offer fresh perspectives on the ever-controversial subject of the history of witchcraft. Using Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic as a starting point, the contributors explore the changes of the last twenty-five years in the understanding of early modern witchcraft, and suggest new approaches, especially concerning the cultural dimensions of the subject. Witchcraft cases must be understood as power struggles, over gender and ideology as well as social relationships, with a crucial role played by alternative representations. Witchcraft was always a contested idea, never fully established in early modern culture but much harder to dislodge than has usually been assumed. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France, and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.

Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters
Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters

Author: J. Goodare

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1137355948

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This book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an overview of the main issues of live interest in Scottish witchcraft. As well as fresh studies of the well-established topic of witch-hunting, the book also launches an exploration of some of the more esoteric aspects of magical belief and practice.