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Witchfinders
a seventeenth-century English tragedy
By Gaskill, Malcolm
- ISBN
- 978-0-67401-976-8
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 28, 2005
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692: discussions of witch hunts generally begin and end then and there. However, as Gaskill, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, reveals, witch hunts are not unique to this side of the Atlantic, and spectacular witch hunts unfolded in the English counties of East Anglia from 1645 to 1647, in which two rather "minor gentlemen," Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne, each seeing a "future in collaboration with the other," sparked a frightening and unparalleled witchfinding campaign that preyed on the fears and anxieties...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
