Witch-hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and ReligionRoutledge, 2008 - Počet stran: 217 Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award Witch-Hunting in Scotland presents a fresh perspective on the trial and execution of the hundreds of women and men prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft, an offence that involved the alleged practice of maleficent magic and the worship of the devil, for inflicting harm on their neighbours and making pacts with the devil. Brian P. Levack draws on law, politics and religion to explain the intensity of Scottish witch-hunting. Topics discussed include:
This original survey combines broad interpretations of the rise and fall of Scottish witchcraft prosecutions with detailed case studies of specific witch-hunts. Witch-Hunting in Scotland makes fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in witchcraft or in the political, legal and religious history of the early modern period. |
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... juries to decide guilt or innocence.12 The use of juries is one of the hallmarks of accusatorial procedure , the system of criminal justice in which individuals or the community rather than the courts take the leading role in the ...
... juries to return the verdicts supported by the evidence and had to resort to granting reprieves or commuting capital sentences to imprisonment . Despite this independence of trial juries in both countries , the debates on relevancy of ...
... juries in England could convict on the basis of circumstantial evidence , Gaule recommended that juries in witchcraft cases be empanelled not of ' ordinary country people , but of the most eminent physicians , lawyers and divines that a ...
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Witchcraft and the law in early modern Scotland | 15 |
King James VI and witchcraft | 34 |
Witchhunting in revolutionary Britain | 55 |
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