Witch Accusations In Seventeenth Century New England U S
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Witch Accusations in Seventeenth Century New England -U.S
Author: Richard Godbeer
language: en
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Release Date: 2018-09-19
This document collection explores why people living in the seventeenth century thought it reasonable to believe in witches and to accuse people of using witchcraft against their enemies. This requires students to set aside their own assumptions and reconstruct the premodern world that New England settlers inhabited through the analysis of primary sources. Students are guided through their analysis of the primary sources with an author-provided learning objective, central question, and historical context.
Damned Women
When exploring the course of events at Salem, historians have often ignored assumptions about gender embedded within Puritan cosmology. The author of this work examines how gender systems cut across religious belief, showing the proscription of women's 'sinful natures' and men's 'natural sins'.
Witchfinders
Author: Malcolm Gaskill
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 2007-10-31
In 1645, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne exploited the anxiety and lawlessness of the time and initiated a brutal campaign to drive out the presumed evil in their midst. Gaskill recounts the most savage witch-hunt in English history. By the fall of 1647 at least 250 people had been captured, interrogated, and tried, with more than 100 hanged.