Paul B. Moyer, "Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World"
English | ISBN: 1501751050 | 2020 | 294 pages | PDF | 9 MB
English | ISBN: 1501751050 | 2020 | 294 pages | PDF | 9 MB
In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides an accessible and comprehensive examination of witch prosecutions in the Puritan colonies that discusses how their English inhabitants understood the crime of witchcraft, why some people ran a greater risk of being accused of occult misdeeds, and how gender intersected with witch-hunting.
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