In 1352 King Edward III had expanded the legal definition of treason to include the act of imagining the death of the ki
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"The definition of treason was so contested and the process of the prosecution so fluid that the trials Cunningham
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In Exorcism and Its Texts, Hilaire Kallendorf demonstrates how this 'infection' was represented in some thirty
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Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly
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The medieval and early modern English imaginary encompasses a broad range of negative and positive dismemberments, from
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The early modern period was arguably the greatest age of the imagination in Europe, and certainly the period in which th
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Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Modern England is a study of the structures of authority in England between the beginni
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