| Wives, Widows, Witches and Bitches: Women in Seventeenth-Century Devon Contributor(s): Thompson, Janet (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820414743 ISBN-13: 9780820414744 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $64.55 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Body, Mind & Spirit | Magick Studies - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Religion | Christian Theology - Ecclesiology |
| Dewey: 133.430 |
| LCCN: 91003824 |
| Series: Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding |
| Physical Information: 260 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Religious Orientation - Christian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a study of women and witchcraft in seventeenth-century Devon. It focuses on the social, political, economic, and religious factors in the county and various borough towns which led them to be likely to single out women for the crime of witchcraft. It also deals with female alehouse keepers, defamation suits brought by women against other women for sexual slander, wills, administrations, and the disposal of real and personal wealth by and to women in this period. |