Testimonies on Witchcraft & Demonology
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description: Available soon Testimonies on Witchcraft & Demonology will be available for purchase soon. To be notified the moment it goes on sale, sign up to our newsletter. Sign up to be notified → About this set This three-volume set gathers some of the most important texts from that tradition, from the Scottish court of James VI to Cotton Mather's Salem and the East Anglian trials of the Witchfinder General. Each volume has been newly typeset in the manner of its earliest printing, following the typographic conventions, ornamental vocabulary, and page structures of the period source. Title pages, woodcuts, initials, and printer's devices have been drawn from historical copies, cleaned, and restored throughout. Where original material was damaged or no longer extant, period-appropriate replacements from the same printing tradition were selected in order to preserve the visual integrity of the source text. Issued in A5 format, printed on Fedrigoni Arena Ivory 120 gsm, and bound in cloth over boards with rounded spines, the three volumes are housed together in a cloth-bound slipcase. Volume I: Dæmonologie & Newes from Scotland Two texts by and concerning King James VI of Scotland, whose involvement in the North Berwick witch trials of 1590 helped shape the prosecution of witchcraft in Britain. Newes from Scotland (1591) is a pamphlet account of the trials, describing the alleged conspiracy of witches against the King. Dæmonologie (1597) is James's own treatise on witchcraft, written in dialogue form and offering royal sanction to the witch-hunting logic that the Malleus had helped codify a century earlier. Volume II: Wonders of the Invisible World Written in 1692 and published in 1693, Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World was intended as a defence of the Salem proceedings. It gathers trial records, theological arguments, and accounts of the accused, and remains one of the fullest contemporary accounts of Salem from the prosecution's side. Volume III: The Discovery of W…
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