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Book Winthrop s Journal   History of New England   1630 1649

Download or read book Winthrop s Journal History of New England 1630 1649 written by John Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Curiosities of Literature

Download or read book Curiosities of Literature written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Witch Craze

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lyndal Roper
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300119831
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Witch Craze written by Lyndal Roper and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches--of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops--and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond. Drawing on hundreds of original trial transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper paints a vivid picture of their lives, families, and tribulations. She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly women in our own culture.

Book London in the Time of the Stuarts

Download or read book London in the Time of the Stuarts written by Walter Besant and published by London : A.& C. Black. This book was released on 1903 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors

Download or read book The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England

Download or read book Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England written by M. Healy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-11-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of plague have on these mental landscapes? Why was the glutted belly such a potent symbol of pathology? Ranging from the Reformation through the English Civil War, Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England is a unique study of a fascinating cultural imaginary of 'disease' and its political consequences. Healy's original approach illuminates the period's disease-impregnated literature, including works by Shakespeare, Milton, Dekker, Heywood and others.

Book The Land war in Ireland

Download or read book The Land war in Ireland written by James Godkin and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Beaminster

Download or read book The History of Beaminster written by Richard Hine and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of New England

Download or read book History of New England written by John Gorham Palfrey and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets

Download or read book Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets written by William Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catholicism and Anti Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts

Download or read book Catholicism and Anti Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts written by A. Marotti and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-06-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to recent historical analyses of Post-Reformation English Catholicism, the essays in this collection by both literary scholars and historians focus on polemical, devotional, political, and literary texts that dramatize the conflicts between context-sensitive Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses in early modern England. They foreground some major literary authors and canonical texts, but also examine non-canonical literature as well as other writings that embody ideological fantasies connecting the political and religious discourses of the time with their literary manifestations.

Book The Journal of John Winthrop  1630 1649

Download or read book The Journal of John Winthrop 1630 1649 written by John Winthrop and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about 40 percent of the governor's text, with his spelling and punctuation modernized, includes a lively Introduction and complete annotation. It also includes Winthrop's famous lay sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity", written in 1630. As in the fuller journal, this abridged edition contains the drama of Winthrop's life - his defeat at the hands of the freemen for governor, the banishment and flight of Roger Williams to Rhode Island, the Pequot War that exterminated his Indian opponents, and the Antinomian controversy. Here is the earliest American document on the perpetual contest between the forces of good and evil in the wilderness - Winthrop's recounting of how God's Chosen People escaped from captivity into the promised land. While he recorded all the sexual scandal - rape, fornication, adultery, sodomy, and buggery - it was only to show that even in Godly New England the Devil was continually at work, and man must be forever militant.

Book Sussex in the Great Civil War and the Interregnum  1642 1660

Download or read book Sussex in the Great Civil War and the Interregnum 1642 1660 written by Charles Thomas-Stanford and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of British Women s Writing  1610 1690

Download or read book The History of British Women s Writing 1610 1690 written by M. Suzuki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period.

Book A History of British Baptists

Download or read book A History of British Baptists written by William Thomas Whitley and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Old Halls  Manors and Families of Derbyshire

Download or read book The Old Halls Manors and Families of Derbyshire written by Joseph Tilley (of Derby, Eng.) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Reformation

Download or read book The English Reformation written by A. G. Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: