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The Witch Hunts: A History of ...Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches betwee... Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 - the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was moreDetails
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Narrating Intersectional Persp...This book presents a guide to researching intersectionality. Clear and jargon-... This book presents a guide to researching intersectionality. Clear and jargon-free, this book introduces a narrative-driven, scalar, and polyvocal approach to the antiracist-feminist framework. Thimm shows students how intersectionality can be use moreDetails
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Demonology and Witch-Hunting i...Demonology - the intellectual study of demons and their powers - contributed t... Demonology - the intellectual study of demons and their powers - contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists' co moreDetails
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Witches (RLE Witchcraft): Inve...Clues to T.C. Lethbridge's books lie in their subtitles. Witches: Investigatin... Clues to T.C. Lethbridge's books lie in their subtitles. Witches: Investigating an Ancient Religion is no exception. In his study of the old pagan gods of Britain, Lethbridge believed that witch cults had their roots in prehistory and eve moreDetails
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Enchanted Feminism: The Reclai...This is the first major study of the most famous Reclaiming Witch community, f... This is the first major study of the most famous Reclaiming Witch community, founded in 1979 in San Francisco, written by an author who herself participated in a coven for ten years. Jone Salomonsen describes and examines the communal and ritual p moreDetails
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The Witch Figure: Folklore ess...Katharine Briggs enjoys an unchallenged reputation in the world of folklore st... Katharine Briggs enjoys an unchallenged reputation in the world of folklore studies. The theme of this volume, the witch figure as a malevolent intermediary in folk belief, was chosen to reflect that aspect of Briggs's scholarship exemplified in h moreDetails
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Marks of an Absolute Witch: Ev...This work explores the social foundation of evidence law in a specific histori... This work explores the social foundation of evidence law in a specific historical social and cultural context - the debate concerning the proof of the crime of witchcraft in early modern England. In this period the question of how to prove the cri moreDetails
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Women Writers and the Occult i...Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book... Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century. Bestselling novels such as The Da Vin moreDetails
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Feminist Spirituality under Ca...Industrial modernity's worship of rationality had a profound effect on women's... Industrial modernity's worship of rationality had a profound effect on women's ways of knowing, marginalizing them along with other alternate forms of knowledge such as the imagination and the unconscious. Feminist Spirituality under Capitalis moreDetails
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Embracing the Witch and the Go...Embracing the Witch and the Goddess is a detailed survey of present-day femini... Embracing the Witch and the Goddess is a detailed survey of present-day feminist witches in New Zealand. It examines the attraction of witchcraft for its practitioners, and explores witches' rituals, views and beliefs about how magic work moreDetails
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Joan of Navarre: Infanta, Duch...This book is the first full-length biography of Joan of Navarre, a fascinating... This book is the first full-length biography of Joan of Navarre, a fascinating royal woman who became duchess of Brittany and queen consort of England through her two marriages in 1386 and 1403 respectively.Joan was enmeshed in the turbule moreDetails
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Damnable Practises: Witches, D...Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication... Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social classes across seventeenth century England. Bal moreDetails
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Classical Liberalism and the I...Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869) is today a largely unknown figure, sometimes consi... Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869) is today a largely unknown figure, sometimes considered to be a forerunner of Karl Marx. Yet a closer look at Hodgskin's works reveals that he was actually a committed advocate of laissez-faire economics and en moreDetails
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Studies in Ethics and the Phil...First published in 2003. This is Volume V of nine in the Studies in Ethics and... First published in 2003. This is Volume V of nine in the Studies in Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion collection. The Series is meant to provide an opportunity for philosophical discussions of a limited length which pursue in some detail speci moreDetails
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Write My Name: Authorship in t...Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore is the first monograph... Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore is the first monograph devoted to Moore's poetry. The focus of the book is on Moore's poetry and differing formulations of authorship therein. Its scope comprises poetic publications moreDetails
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Colonial Cambodia's 'Bad Frenc...Colonial Cambodia's "Bad Frenchmen" provides a captivating analysis of the gra... Colonial Cambodia's "Bad Frenchmen" provides a captivating analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on new materials from French, Vietnamese and Cambodian archives, it reconstruct moreDetails
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Everybody's America: Thomas Py...Everybody's America reassesses Pynchon's literary career in order to explain t... Everybody's America reassesses Pynchon's literary career in order to explain the central role played by the racialization of American culture in the postmodernist deconstruction of subjectivity and literary authority and in the crisis in white lib moreDetails
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Women and Sexuality in the Nov...The women in Thomas Hardy's novels appear to have no control over their conduc... The women in Thomas Hardy's novels appear to have no control over their conduct or their destiny. In this book, Rosemarie Morgan argues a contrary case. Hardy's women struggle, sometimes winning, often losing, but they are not tame objects to be m moreDetails
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Thomas CranmerThomas Cranmer's place in English history is firmly established, yet the compl... Thomas Cranmer's place in English history is firmly established, yet the complexities of his character have remained obscure and he continues to be one of the most problematic figures of the Tudor period. Susan Wabuda's biography sheds fresh light moreDetails
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Thomas Aquinas: Theologian of ...The work of Thomas Aquinas (1224-1275) has become increasingly influential in ... The work of Thomas Aquinas (1224-1275) has become increasingly influential in recent doctrinal theology and theological ethics, aside from his extraordinary historical significance. Thomas has been read ever since his death, today as much as ever. moreDetails
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Systems of Reason and the Poli...The 1980s were an important decade for educational inquiry. It was the moment ... The 1980s were an important decade for educational inquiry. It was the moment of the "linguistic turn," with its emphasis on the role of language as a constructor of reality, a structuring agent for institutions such as schools, and a medium for t moreDetails
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New Essays on Thomas ReidThomas Reid (1710-96) was a contemporary of both David Hume and Immanuel Kant,... Thomas Reid (1710-96) was a contemporary of both David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and a central figure in the Scottish School of Common Sense. Until recently, his work has been largely neglected, and often misunderstood. Like Kant, Reid cited Hume's moreDetails
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Thomas F. Torrance: Theologian...This book provides an important study of the theology of Thomas F. Torrance, w... This book provides an important study of the theology of Thomas F. Torrance, who is generally considered to have been one of the most significant theologians writing in English during the twentieth century, with a view toward showing how his theol moreDetails
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Thomas Hardy: Selected PoemsIn Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems Tim Armstrong brings together over 180 poems i... In Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems Tim Armstrong brings together over 180 poems in the first comprehensively annotated selection of Hardys poetry. Unlike most previous selections, this edition preserves the shape of the poets career by prese moreDetails
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Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps ... Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared, in its complexity, linguistic playfulne moreDetails
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Major-General Thomas Harrison:...Thomas Harrison is today perhaps best remembered for the manner of his death. ... Thomas Harrison is today perhaps best remembered for the manner of his death. As a leading member of the republican regime and signatory to Charles I's death warrant, he was hanged, drawn and quartered by the Restoration government in 1660; a spec moreDetails
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Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiseri...Focusing on Thomas Burke's bestselling collection of short stories, Limehouse ... Focusing on Thomas Burke's bestselling collection of short stories, Limehouse Nights (1916), this book contextualises the burgeoning cult of Chinatown in turn-of-the-century London. London's 'Chinese Quarter' owed its notoriety to the Yellow Peril moreDetails
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Religion, Secularization and P...The increasing secularization of political thought between the mid-seventeenth... The increasing secularization of political thought between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries has often been noted, but rarely described in detail. The contributors to this volume consider the significance of the relationship between moreDetails
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Providence and Science in a Wo...Providence and Science in a World of Contingency offers a novel assessment of ... Providence and Science in a World of Contingency offers a novel assessment of the contemporary debate over divine providential action and the natural sciences, suggesting a re-consideration of Thomas Aquinas' metaphysical doctrine of prov moreDetails
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Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and H...As it entered the 1960s, American institutional psychiatry was thriving, with ... As it entered the 1960s, American institutional psychiatry was thriving, with a high percentage of medical students choosing the field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961, The Myth of Mental Illness, the psychiatric world w moreDetails
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