Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England: A History of Sorcery and Treason 9781786722911, 9781788310215, 1786722917

Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England: A History of Sorcery and Treason 9781788310215, 9781350987067, 9781786732910

Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly

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Political Theology in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Discourses, Rites, and Representations (Medieval and Early Modern Political Theology) (Medieval and Early Modern Political Theology, 1) 9782503568348, 2503568343

This book aims to provide a new perspective on the subject, dealing with the events (historical events and intellectual

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Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England: Gender, Law and Political Culture 9781783275557, 9781800100367

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Imaginary Betrayals: Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern England 9780812204278

"The definition of treason was so contested and the process of the prosecution so fluid that the trials Cunningham

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Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic (Magic in History) 9780271083681, 0271083689

This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan Eng

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Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 21) 9781843839422, 1843839423

Representing a history of drinking "from below", this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-ce

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Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland: Essays in Honour of John Walter (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 26) 9781783271719

An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's

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From Tyrant to Philosopher-King: A Literary History of Alexander the Great in Medieval and Early Modern England 9782503545394, 9782503560557

Since his death in Babylon in 323 BC, Alexander the Great has inspired an unparalleled legacy founded on both histories

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Commerce and Politics in Hume's History of England (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History) 9781783271870, 1783271876

David Hume's six-volume History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 (1754-61)

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Domestic Culture in Early Modern England (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 24) 9781783270415, 1783270411

A detailed study of the domestic life of the early modern, non-elite household This book is a detailed study of the dom

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