Entertaining Satan
Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
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2004
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Updated Edition
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-517483-0 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-517483-0 (ISBN)
Illustrates why the early Americans' strange views on witchcraft in the first edition of this Bancroft Prize-winning book still matter to us. This book provides a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world.
In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.
In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.
John Putnam Demos is Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony and The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.11.2004 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 3 maps, numerous tables and figures |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 142 x 214 mm |
| Gewicht | 703 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-517483-6 / 0195174836 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-517483-0 / 9780195174830 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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