WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY IN SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND, 1640-1789.
Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover, original pictorial boards. 373 pp., Notes, Bibliography, Index. A volume in the Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Series. A fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. Note: This title is In Print in for $149.99 US. Fine. Item #312772
¶ Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated.
Table of contents
Introduction
Robert Hunt and the Somerset Witches
The Trial of the Bideford Witches
The Politics of Pandaemonium
John Beaumont: Science, Spirits and the Scale of Nature
Public Infidelity and Private Belief? The Discourse of Spirits in Enlightenment Bristol
Methodism and Mummery: The Case of George Lukins
Jonathan Barry
Conclusion.
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