Witchcraft and Hysteria In Elizabethan London

Routledge, 1990-12-21. Hardcover. Good. 8x5x1. London, 1991; personal copy of editor Michael MacDonald; cover does not match image shown; red cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; illustrated dust jacket with white cover titles and spine titles; mild soiling to jacket; a few small tears at top jacket edge; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Michael MacDonald's… Read more about this item

London: Routledge, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry. lxiv, 150 p. 23 cm. Burgundy cloth in dustjacket.

Hardback. New. Analyzing the politics of credulity and scepticism in early modern England and Edward Jorden's involvement, this book details the Mary Glover case on which so many of Jorden's observations about hysteria were based. MacDonald contends that the case was a turning point in the decline of witchcraft.

Paperback / softback. New. 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… Read more about this item

Routledge, 2013. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 360 pages. 8.50x5.43x0.75 inches.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London : Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover Case.

Routledge, 1990. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 372 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches.