TY  - BOOK
AU  - Young,Francis
TI  - Magic as a political crime in medieval and early modern England: a history of sorcery and treason 
T2  - International library of historical studies
SN  - 9781786722911
AV  - DA44 .Y68 2018eb
U1  - 133.4/30941 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Witchcraft
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought
KW  - bicssc
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Parapsychology
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index; 1. 'Compassing and imagining': magic as a political crime in Medieval England -- 2. Treason, sorcery and prophecy in the early English Reformation, 1534-58 -- 3. Elizabeth versus the 'Popish Conjurers', 1558-77 -- 4. 'A traitorous heart to the queen': effigies and witch-hunts, 1578-1603 -- 5. 'A breach in nature': magic as a political crime in early Stuart England, 1603-42 -- 6. The decline of magic as a political crime, 1642-1700
N2  - Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the 'superstition' embodied by magic came to be associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the convictions of undesirables, magic was also perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond
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