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Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London: Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover
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Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London: Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover Case Hardcover - 1990

by Michael MacDonald (Editor)


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Witchcraft was at its height in Elizabethan London. Edward Jorden showed that hysteria and not demons lay behind the witch-craze.
Edward Jorden's Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother (1603) is said to have reclaimed the demoniacally possessed for medicine and to have introduced the concept of hysteria into English psychiatry. The aim of this book is to reassess the reasons why Jorden wrote his famous pamphlet and to set it in its actual historical context.
This book brings Jorden's pamphlet together with two works by Jorden's adversaries, John Swann's A True and Breife Report of Mary Glovers Vexation and Stephen Bradwell's Mary Glovers late Woeful Case', which has never before been published. Both of these concern the incident that provoked Jorden's Briefe Discourse, and they show that his pamphlet was in fact prompted by a bitter religious and political controversy over the case.
Michael MacDonald, in his introduction provides a fresh and realistic analysis of the politics of credulity and scepticism in early modern England and Jorden's part in them.

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As I am desirous to satisfie all indifferent men concerning the occasion and intent of this my discourse : So I thought good to direct the same especially unto this societie, whereof I am a member; to testifie both how instly or rather necessarily I have beene drawn to the undertaking and publishing hereof : as also how willing I am to submit my selfe to your learned censure; the argument of my writing being such as none can better indge of then your selnes.

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  • Title Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London: Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover Case
  • Author Michael MacDonald (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, LONDON
  • Date 1990-12-06
  • ISBN 9780415017886 / 0415017882
  • Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - History - Elizabeth,, Hysteria - Case studies
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90008435
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.852
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