Witchcraft in Early Modern England by James Sharpe
Author:James Sharpe [Sharpe, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Europe, Great Britain, Modern, 17th Century, 18th Century, 16th Century, Social History
ISBN: 9781317881308
Google: MlBdAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-06T01:40:25+00:00
5 The decline of witchcraft
In the 1630s, as we have seen, however tenacious witchcraft beliefs may have been among the population at large, witchcraft was becoming marginalised both as a matter of concern for central government and the criminal courts, and as a subject of intellectual and theological debate. No big demonological tracts were written, nor were any trial pamphlets, while on the strength of surviving documentation accusations of witchcraft were coming only very infrequently before both the secular and ecclesiastic courts, and when tried at the former were very unlikely to result in a capital conviction. Had the forces apparently at work in the 1630s been allowed to continue, historians of witchcraft in early modern England might well have found little to concern them after that decade.
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