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  • Witchcraft

    A History in Thirteen Trials

    by Marion Gibson ...
    National BestsellerA New Yorker Best Book of 2024A “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times, London) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.This “inventive and compelling” (The Times Literary Supplement, London... ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Witchland

    A Deadly Moral Panic in Seventeenth-Century Britain

    by Marion Gibson ...
    "It’s incredible, reading the histories Gibson has assembled, to recognize how puny, how obscure, were these men who kick-started a persecution that would spread across Europe and the Atlantic—and which arguably persists today." —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling author of Witchcraft, the captivating, compassionate account of a moral panic that swept across Britain during the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Witches of St Osyth

    by Marion Gibson ...
    An emotive, haunting story of a community torn apart, the Essex witch accusations and trial of 1581-2 are, taken together, one of the pivotal instances of that malign and destructive wave of misogynistic persecution which periodically broke over early modern England. Yet, for all their importance in the overall study of witchcraft, the so-called witches of St Osyth have largely been overlooked by ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Early Modern Witches

    Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing

    by Marion Gibson ...
    This collection of pamphlets describes fifteen English witchcraft cases in detail, vividly recreating events to give the reader the illusion of actually being present at witchcraft accusations, trials and hangings. But how much are we victims of literary manipulation by these texts? The pamphlets are presented in annotated format, to allow the reader to decide. Some of the texts appear in print ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft

    by Marion Gibson ...
    Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft is an exploration of witchcraft in the literature of Britain and America from the 16th and 17th centuries through to the present day. As well as the themes of history and literature (politics and war, genre and intertextuality), the book considers issues of national identity, gender and sexuality, race and empire, and more. The complex fascination with ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Witchcraft: The Basics

    by Marion Gibson ...
    Series series The Basics
    Witchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through to its resonances in the modern world. Through the use of two case studies, this book delves into the emergence of the witch as a harmful figure within western thought and traces the representation of ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Imagining the Pagan Past

    Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages

    by Marion Gibson ...
    Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain’s pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse, encouraging tribal and nationalistic feelings or challenging church and state.This book shows how ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Possession, Puritanism and Print

    Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy

    by Marion Gibson ...
    Series series Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
    Tells a story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic possessions and exorcisms, this book highlights the existence of controversies in print in the late Elizabethan period of the kind that would one day lead to civil war. ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Witchcraft Myths in American Culture

    by Marion Gibson ...
    A fascinating examination of how Americans think about and write about witches, from the 'real' witches tried and sometimes executed in early New England to modern re-imaginings of witches as pagan priestesses, comic-strip heroines and feminist icons. The first half of the book is a thorough re-reading of the original documents describing witchcraft prosecutions from 1640-1700 and a re-thinking of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Reading Witchcraft

    by Marion Gibson ...
    In this original study of witchcraft, Gibson explores the stories told by and about witches and their 'victims' through trial records, early news books, pamphlets and fascinating personal accounts. The author discusses the issues surrounding the interpretation of original historical sources and demonstrates that their representations of witchcraft are far from straight forward or reliable. ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity

    Edited by Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower, Garry Tregidga ...
    Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with particular reference to the British and Celtic contexts. The authors consider how aspects of the past are reinterpreted or reimagined in a variety of ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Witchland

    A Deadly Moral Panic in Seventeenth-Century Britain

    by Marion Gibson ...
    Narrated by Anna Wilson-Jones ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    "It’s incredible, reading the histories Gibson has assembled, to recognize how puny, how obscure, were these men who kick-started a persecution that would spread across Europe and the Atlantic—and which arguably persists today." —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling author of Witchcraft, the captivating, compassionate account of a moral panic that swept across Britain during the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook