Autorentext

Brian P. Levack is the John Green Regents Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications on the history of witchcraft include The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd ed., 2006), The Witchcraft Sourcebook (2004) and Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1999).

Klappentext

Witch-Hunting in Scotland presents a fresh perspective on the trial and execution of the hundreds of women and men prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft in Scotland.

Inhalt

1. Witch-Hunting in Scotland and England 2. Witchcraft and the Law in Early Modern Scotland 3. King James VI and Witchcraft 4. Witch-Hunting in Revolutionary Britain 5. The Great Scottish Witch-Hunt of 1661-1662 6. Absolutism, State-Building, and Witchcraft 7. Demonic Possession and Witch-Hunting in Scotland 8. The Decline and End of Scottish Witch-Hunting 9. Witch-Hunting and Witch-Murder in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland