J.P.Sommerville

 

XXI. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE WITCH-HUNT

Q. Why did English people begin hunting witches in the sixteenth century, and stop hunting them in the seventeenth?

General

  1. J.A.Sharpe, Instruments of darkness
  2. B.P.Levack, The witch-hunt in early modern Europe
  3. I.Bostridge, Witchcraft and its transformations
  4. J.Barry, M.Hester, & G.Roberts eds, Witchcraft in early modern Europe
  5. S.Clark, Thinking with demons
  6. C.L.Ewen, Witch hunting and witch trials
  7. C.Larner, Enemies of God
  8. W.Notestein, A History of witchcraft in England: From 1588 to 1718
  9. H.R. Trevor-Roper,  The European witch-craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and other essays
  10. K.Thomas, Religion and the decline of magic
  11. Sydney Anglo ed., The Damned Art: Essays in the literature of witchcraft

 

Witchcraft and women

  1. A.Anderson & R.Gordon, 'Witchcraft and the status of women - the case of England', British Journal of Sociology, 29 (June 1978), pp. 171-84
  2. J.K.Swales & H.V.McLachlan, 'Witchcraft and the status of women: a comment', British Journal of Sociology 30 (September 1979), pp. 349-58
  3. J.A.Sharpe, 'Witchcraft and women in seventeenth-century England: some Northern evidence' Continuity and Change (1991) 6, 179-99
  4. Clive Holmes, 'Women: Witnesses and witches', Past & Present 140 (August 1993), pp. 45-78
  5. A.L.Barstow, Witchcraze
  6. J.R.Brink, A.P.Coudert & M.C.Horowitz eds., The Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe (Volume XII Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies)
  7. D.Purkiss, The witch in history

 

Witchcraft and science

  1. M.McDonald, Mystical Bedlam
  2. D.Harley, 'Mental illness, magical medicine and the Devil in northern England, 1650-1700', In The medical revolution of the seventeenth century, Edited by Roger French and Andrew Wear pp.114-144
  3. D.Harley, 'Historians as demonologists: The Myth of the midwife-witch' Journal for the Social History of Medicine (1990) 3, pp.1-26
  4. Thomas Harmon Jobe, 'The Devil in Restoration Science: The Glanvill-Webster witchcraft debate', Isis, (1981) 72, 343-56
  5. C.Webster, From Paracelsus to Newton: Magic and the making of modern science (especially Chapter 4)

 

Witchcraft and society

  1. A.D.J.Macfarlane, Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England
  2. Adrian Pollock, 'Social and economic characteristics of witchcraft accusations in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Kent', Archaeologia Cantiana (1979) XCV, 37-48
  3. Peter Rushton, 'Women, witchcraft, and slander in Early Modern England: Cases from the Church Courts of Durham, 1560-1675', Northern History (1979) XVIII, 116-132
  4. J.T.Swain, 'The Lancashire witch trials of 1612 and 1634 and the economics of witchcraft', Northern History (1994) XXX, 64-85
  5. P.Tyler, 'The Church Courts at York and witchcraft prosecutions 1567-1640', Northern History, (1969) IV, 84-110
  6. C.Holmes, 'Popular Culture? Witches, magistrates and divines in early modern England' In S.Kaplan ed., Understanding Popular Culture

 

Particular incidents

  1. M.McDonald, Witchcraft and hysteria in Elizabethan London: Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover case
  2. D.P.Walker, Unclean spirits: Possession and exorcism
  3. E.Fairfax, Daemonologia: A discourse on witchcraft
  4. C.L.Ewen, Robert Ratcliffe, 5th Earl of Sussex: The witchcraft allegations in his family
  5. G.B.Harrison, The Trial of the Lancaster witches
  6. Annabel Gregor,'Witchcraft, politics and "Good Neighbourhood" in early seventeenth-century Rye', Past and Present (1991) 133, 31-66
  7. R.Deacon, Matthew Hopkins: Witch finder general
  8. J.Westaway & R.D.Harrison, ''The Surey Demoniack': Defining Protestantism in 1690s Lancashire', In Studies in Church History (1996) 32, pp.263-82
  9. P.J.Guskin, 'The context of English witchcraft' In Eighteenth Century Studies (1981-2) 15, 48-71