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Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland

James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick witches

by Lawrence Normand, Gareth O. Roberts & Gareth Roberts

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

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Abstract This book provides an 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 It provides hitherto unpublished and inaccessible material from the legal documentation of the trials in a way that makes the material fully comprehensible, all in a readable, modernised,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.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession, Ritual magic and grimoires, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “witches” in the subtitle, “Witchcraft” in the description, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “witchcraft”· via OpenAlex
    • “Witchcraft”· in title
    • “witches”· in subtitle
    • “Witchcraft”· in description
    • “Witchcraft”· in subject
    • “Witchcraft”· in edition title
  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex and wellcome matched “demonology”. Retained metadata contains “Demonology” in the subtitle, “Demonology” in the description, “Demonology” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “demonology”· via OpenAlex
    • “demonology”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “Demonology”· in subtitle
    • “Demonology”· in description
    • “Demonology”· in subject
    • “Demonology”· in edition subtitle

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OpenAlex scholarly book record

2000-01-01Liverpool University Press; Liverpool University Press eBooksEnglish—Unknown

James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick witches

Wellcome Collection bibliographic record

xiii, 454 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.

2000University of Exeter PressEnglish
  • 085989388X
  • 0859896803
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