Opening book details…
Can I read The Lancashire Witches : Histories and Stories on EtoBox?
The Lancashire Witches : Histories and Stories by Poole, Robert (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Lancashire Witches : Histories and Stories about?
This book is a major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial, which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hanged in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. In it, 11 experts from a variety of fields offer surveys of these events and their meanings for contemporaries, for later generations, and for the present day. Chapters look at the politics and ideology of witch-hunting, the conduct of the trial, the social and economic contexts, the religious background, and the local and family details of the episode.
Who reads The Lancashire Witches : Histories and Stories?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Poole, Robert (editor)
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781417574773
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Religion, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
Other editions & translations
More by Poole, Robert (editor)
Browse all works by Poole, Robert (editor)
Similar books
- The Lancashire Witches — Philip C. Almond
- The Lancashire Witch Conspiracy : Histories and New Discoveries of the Pendle Witch Trials — Clayton, John A; Clayton, John A. Lancashire witch conspiracy (2007)
- Oxford Bookworms Library: The Witches of Pendle: Level 1: 400-Word Vocabulary (Oxford Bookworms Library, Stage 1) — Akinyemi, Rowena, Hedge, Tricia (2007)
- The Lancashire Witches - A Romance Of Pendle Forest — Ainsworth, William Harrison; Winter, Andy (2016)
- SOMETHING WICKED : the Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches (2024)
- The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster: Thomas Pott's Original Account Modernized & Introduced by Robert Poole — Poole, Robert; Preston, Jennet; Potts, Thomas (2011)