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The Lancashire Witches

- A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill
Af: Philip C. Almond Engelsk Paperback

The Lancashire Witches

- A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill
Af: Philip C. Almond Engelsk Paperback
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In the febrile religious and political climate of late sixteenth-century England, when the grip of the Reformation was as yet fragile and insecure, and underground papism still perceived to be rife, Lancashire was felt by the Protestant authorities to be a sinister corner of superstition, lawlessness and popery. And it was around Pendle Hill, a sombre ridge that looms over the intersecting pastures, meadows and moorland of the Ribble Valley, that their suspicions took infamous shape. The arraignment of the Lancashire witches in the assizes of Lancaster during 1612 is England''s most notorious witch-trial. The women who lived in the vicinity of Pendle, who were accused alongside the so-called Samlesbury Witches, then convicted and hanged, were more than just wicked sorcerers whose malign incantations caused others harm. They were reputed to be part of a dense network of devilry and mischief that revealed itself as much in hidden celebration of the Mass as in malevolent magic. They had to be eliminated to set an example to others.
In this remarkable and authoritative treatment, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the case of the Lancashire witches, Philip C Almond evokes all the fear, drama and paranoia of those volatile times: the bleak story of the storm over Pendle

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In the febrile religious and political climate of late sixteenth-century England, when the grip of the Reformation was as yet fragile and insecure, and underground papism still perceived to be rife, Lancashire was felt by the Protestant authorities to be a sinister corner of superstition, lawlessness and popery. And it was around Pendle Hill, a sombre ridge that looms over the intersecting pastures, meadows and moorland of the Ribble Valley, that their suspicions took infamous shape. The arraignment of the Lancashire witches in the assizes of Lancaster during 1612 is England''s most notorious witch-trial. The women who lived in the vicinity of Pendle, who were accused alongside the so-called Samlesbury Witches, then convicted and hanged, were more than just wicked sorcerers whose malign incantations caused others harm. They were reputed to be part of a dense network of devilry and mischief that revealed itself as much in hidden celebration of the Mass as in malevolent magic. They had to be eliminated to set an example to others.
In this remarkable and authoritative treatment, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the case of the Lancashire witches, Philip C Almond evokes all the fear, drama and paranoia of those volatile times: the bleak story of the storm over Pendle

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9781350239913
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1350239917
Kategori: Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside
Udg. Dato: 12 nov 2020
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 216mm
Højde: 138mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 12 nov 2020
Forfatter(e): Philip C. Almond
Forfatter(e) Philip C. Almond

Kategori Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside

ISBN-13 9781350239913

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 216mm

Højde 138mm

Udg. Dato 12 nov 2020

Oplagsdato 12 nov 2020

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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