{"product_id":"9781398508507-witchcraft","title":"Witchcraft","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA History in Thirteen Trials\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lively and immersive global history of witchcraft which shows its evolution from the Middle Ages to the present day and shines a light on the stories of the victims, told in thirteen trials. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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 wicked and dangerous. Together they comprise not just a history of witchcraft but a cautionary tale’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Malcolm Gaskill, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ruin of All Witches \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The world of \u003cb\u003ewitch-hunts\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003ewitch trials\u003c\/b\u003e sounds archaic and fanciful, these terms relics of an unenlightened, brutal age. However, we often hear ‘witch-hunt’ in today’s media, and the misogyny that shaped witch trials is all too familiar. \u003cb\u003eThree women were prosecuted under a version of the 1735 Witchcraft Act as recently as 2018.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eWitchcraft\u003c\/i\u003e – \u003cb\u003ea stunning hardback with 16 pages of beautiful illustrations\u003c\/b\u003e – Professor Marion Gibson uses thirteen significant trials to tell the\u003cb\u003e global history\u003c\/b\u003e of witchcraft and witch-hunts. As well as exploring the origins of witch-hunts through some of the \u003cb\u003emost famous trials\u003c\/b\u003e from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, it takes us in new and surprising directions.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e It shows us how witchcraft was reimagined by lawyers and radical historians in France, how suspicions of sorcery led to murder in Jazz Age Pennsylvania, the effects of colonialism and Christian missionary zeal on ‘witches’ in Africa, and how even today a witch trial can come in many guises.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Professor Gibson also tells\u003cb\u003e the stories of the ‘witches\u003c\/b\u003e’ – mostly women like Helena Scheuberin, Anny Sampson and Joan Wright, \u003cb\u003ewhose stories have too often been overshadowed by those of the powerful men, such as King James I and ‘Witchfinder General’ Matthew Hopkins, who hounded them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Once a tool invented by demonologists to hurt and silence their enemies, witch trials have been twisted and transformed over the course of history and the lines between witch and witch-hunter blurred. \u003cb\u003eFor the fortunate, a witch-hunt is just a metaphor, but, as this book makes clear, witches are truly still on trial.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Helena Scheuberin * Anny Sampson * Gillie Duncan \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKari Edisdattar * Bess Clarke * Tatabe of Salem * \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarie-Catherine Cadière * Nellie Duncan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStormy Daniels \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThese are their stories \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 'Thought-provoking and timely. Searing'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessie Childs, The Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40837530255457,"sku":"9781398508507","price":19.08,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31761589.jpg?v=1734596148","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781398508507-witchcraft","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}