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Witchcraft: The Basics by Marion Gibson
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €28.01Witchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through... -
Reading Witchcraft by Marion Gibson
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23In this original study of witchcraft, Gibson explores the stories told by and about witches and their 'victims' through trial records, early news books, pamphlets and fascinating personal accounts... -
Witchland Marion Gibson 9781398545144
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.45'No historian before Marion Gibson has managed to convey so well the lived reality of British witch trials at the local level. This is as close to an eye-witness view of them as we are likely to get'... -
Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft by Marion Gibson
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft is an exploration of witchcraft in the literature of Britain and America from the 16th and 17th centuries through to the present day. As well as the themes of... -
Unfaithful Mind by Marion Gibson 9781927637036
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927637036Author Marion GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
Witchcraft: The Basics by Marion Gibson 9781138779969
Booksplease Price: €131.36Witchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through... -
The Witches of St Osyth by Marion Gibson
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €33.94An emotive, haunting story of a community torn apart, the Essex witch accusations and trial of 1581-2 are, taken together, one of the pivotal instances of that malign and destructive wave of... -
The Witches of St Osyth Marion Gibson 9781108796842
Booksplease Price: €29.31An emotive, haunting story of a community torn apart, the Essex witch accusations and trial of 1581-2 are, taken together, one of the pivotal instances of that malign and destructive wave of... -
Shakespeare's Demonology: A Dictionary by Marion Gibson 9781474253956
Booksplease Price: €51.56This volume in the long-running and acclaimed Shakespeare Dictionary series is a detailed, critical reference work examining all aspects of magic, good and evil, across Shakespeare's works. Topics... -
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials Marion Gibson 9781398508538
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'These stories of witchcraft, true and vividly told, demonstrate the potent reality of belief in evil and how in any era or place fear can be weaponised and marginal people, mostly women, labelled as... -
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson 9781668002438
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €15.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668002438Author Marion GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson 9781668002421
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €22.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668002421Author Marion GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson 9781398508507
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.96'These stories of witchcraft, true and vividly told, demonstrate the potent reality of belief in evil and how in any era or place fear can be weaponised and marginal people, mostly women, labelled as... -
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson 9781398508514
Booksplease Price: €17.92Salem, King James VI, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch hunts and witch trials sounds antiquated, relics of an unenlightened and brutal age. However, 'witch hunt' is heard often in the... -
Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity by Marion Gibson 9780415628693
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power... -
Witchcraft Myths in American Culture Marion Gibson 9780415979771
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23A fascinating examination of how Americans think about and write about witches, from the 'real' witches tried and sometimes executed in early New England to modern re-imaginings of witches as pagan... -
Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 by Marion Gibson 9780826483003
Booksplease Price: €79.23A unique collection of materials, including works of literature as well as historical documents, Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 provides a broad view of how witches and... -
Order from chaos: Responding to traumatic events by Marion Gibson 9781861346971
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €27.72In the context of recent natural disasters and the increase of global terrorism, there is a need for a greater understanding of the psychosocial impact of such events on the individuals and... -
Early Modern Witches: Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing by Marion Gibson
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30This collection of pamphlets describes fifteen English witchcraft cases in detail, vividly recreating events to give the reader the illusion of actually being present at witchcraft accusations,... -
Possession, Puritanism and Print: Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy Marion Gibson 9781138663381
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45Tells a story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic possessions and... -
Imagining the Pagan Past: Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages by Marion Gibson
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain's pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the... -
Aliens and the Law: Some Legal Aspects of the National Treatment of Aliens in the United States by William Marion Gibson 9781469644486
Booksplease Price: €53.67International customary law prescribes a minimum standard of treatment with which all nations must accord-aliens are entitled to ""life, liberty, and property"" while resident outside their own... -
Heresy, Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Gary K. Waite 9780333754344
Booksplease Price: €48.54Bringing together the fields of Reformation and witchcraft studies, Gary K. Waite reveals how the early-modern period's religious conflicts led to widespread confusion and uncertainty, against which... -
Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography by J. Barry 9781403911766
RRP: €156.49Booksplease Price: €133.42This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of Witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day, the book draws on... -
Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography by J. Barry 9781403911759
RRP: €135.66Booksplease Price: €133.42This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of Witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day, the book draws on... -
Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters by Julian Goodare 9781137355935
RRP: €142.79Booksplease Price: €130.89This book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an overview of the main issues of live interest in Scottish witchcraft. As well as fresh studies of the well-established topic of... -
Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters by Julian Goodare 9781349470334
RRP: €142.79Booksplease Price: €133.42This book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an overview of the main issues of live interest in Scottish witchcraft. As well as fresh studies of the well-established topic of... -
Demonic Possession and Exorcism: In Early Modern France Sarah Ferber (University of Queensland, Australia) 9780415212656
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This is a highly original study of demon possession and the ritual of exorcism, both of which were rife in early modern times, and which reached epidemic proportions in France.Catholics at the time... -
Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe by Andrew D. McCarthy
RRP: €66.63Booksplease Price: €62.40Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collection scrutinizes the historical intersection of early... -
The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England Darren Oldridge 9780415747592
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England reflects upon the boundaries between the natural and the otherworldly in early modern England as they were understood by the people of the time. The book... -
The Years of the Wizard: The Strange History and Home Life of Renaissance Magicians Rachel Morris 9781914613968
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.11All things were believable back then - wizards, alchemy, fairies, angels. This is the story of those magical times. A lyrical and highly atmospheric exploration of the lives of Tudor and... -
Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century by Marina Montesano
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €46.21This volume offers 18 studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, magic, and witchcraft. The chapters traverse a broad... -
Magic in Merlin's Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain by Francis Young
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €40.07Belief in magic was, until relatively recent times, widespread in Britain; yet the impact of such belief on determinative political events has frequently been overlooked. In his wide-ranging new... -
Magic in Merlin's Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain Francis Young 9781009065870
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €27.51Belief in magic was, until relatively recent times, widespread in Britain; yet the impact of such belief on determinative political events has frequently been overlooked. In his wide-ranging new... -
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic Tabitha Stanmore 9781529931563
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Cunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve life's day-to-day problems - as well as some of deadly importance.'A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour' MALCOLM GASKILL,... -
Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic by Frank Klaassen
Booksplease Price: €34.00This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses... -
Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England by Erika Gasser 9781479831791
RRP: €94.01Booksplease Price: €75.60Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England Those possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited... -
Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic by Frank Klaassen 9780271083681
Booksplease Price: €34.64This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses... -
Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England by Erika Gasser
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.08Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England Those possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited... -
Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England by Charlotte-Rose Millar 9780367204549
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the Devil in English witchcraft pamphlets for the entire period of state-sanctioned witchcraft prosecutions (1563-1735). It provides a...