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A seminar examining the role of exorcism in Elizabethan protestant circles, and how the idea fitted uncomfortably in the revised religion.
Witchcraft was a scandal as well as a crime. The issue of scandal often appears in witchcraft trials. This seminar examines literary and oral resources to understand the role ‘gossip’ and scandal played in witchcraft cases. Prepared for the special subject module: Ghosts, Witches and Portents in Early Modern Europe.
Bibliography for essay: What can we learn from a comparison of popular pamphlets on witchcraft with stage representations of witchcraft in the Jacobean period? Prepared for the special subject module: Ghosts, Witches and Portents in Early Modern Europe.
Bibliography for essay: How reliably can one use popular pamphlets as evidence for common attitudes to ONE of the following; the devil; the natural world; supernatural forces. Prepared for the special subject module: Ghosts, Witches and Portents in Early Modern Europe.