A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth Century Witchcraft Prosecution

by Ivan Bunn and Gilbert Geis

Book Overview

In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a complete account of this sensational trial and an analysis of the court procedures, and the larger social, cultural and political concerns of the period.
In a critique of the official process, the book details how the erroneous conclusions of the trial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415171091
• ISBN13: 9780415171090
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"