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Witches, Wizards, Seers & Healers Myths & Tales
In the West we tend to think of witches in terms of the witch trials, when fear, ignorance and religious fervour brought the poor to heel, and fostered suspicion of those who dared …
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
A remarkable popular history of the English Civil War, from the perspectives of those involved in this most significant turning point in British history.
The Witch in History
'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and …
Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760
The shared aim of these important new critical interventions into the early modern period is to make fresh feminist attempts to uncover the writings of Elizabethan and Jacobean …
Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods
Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed through literary …
Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760
The shared aim of these important new critical interventions into the early modern period is to make fresh feminist attempts to uncover the writings of Elizabethan and Jacobean …
Fairies and Fairy Stories
From the dangerous beings of ancient myths and medieval folklore, to the sanitized wingy thingies of Shakespeare and the Victorians, and even modern myths of alien abduction, this …
Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760
The essays offer new feminist analysis of the early modern period and show how women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has …
Witch in History
'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and …
Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods
Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed through literary …
Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War
In this innovative study, Diane Purkiss illuminates the role of gender in the English Civil War by focusing on ideas of masculinity, rather than on the role of women, which has …