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Early Modern Europe: The Witch Hunts
Early Modern Europe: The Witch Hunts
Texts
Johannes Nider, Formicarius (c. 1437) excerpts (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
Bull Summis Desderantes (1484) (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
Malleus Maleficarum (1486) excerpts (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
Jean Bodin, De la demonomanie des sorciers (1580) excerpts (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
Witch Persecutions at Trier (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
Witch Persecutions at Bonn (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
Witch Persecutions at Bamberg (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
Witch Persecutions at Wurzburg (Hanover Historical Texts Project) (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
Newes from Scotland (1591) (in progress) (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
George Gifford, A dialogue concerning witches and witchcraftes (1593) (in progress) (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
James I, Demonologie (1597) (in progress) (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
Friedrich Spee, Cautio criminalis (1631) excerpts (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
A True and Impartial Relation of the Informations against Three Wit... (1682) (The Trial of the Bideford Witches, Frank J. Gent)
The Tryal, Condemnation, and Execution of Three Witches (1682) (The Trial of the Bideford Witches, Frank J. Gent)
A Tryal of Witches at the Assizes Held at Bury St. Edmunds. . . 1664 (1682) (Ivan A.W. Bunn)
Witchcraft in New York: The cases of Hall and Harrison (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
Samuel Green, ed. Groton in Witchcraft Times (c.1671) (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
Witchcraft in Virginia: texts published in William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine (JSTOR access only)
Grace Sherwood, the Virginia Witch
part 1 Vol. 3, No. 2. (Oct., 1894), pp. 96-101.
part 2 Vol. 3, No. 3. (Jan., 1895), pp. 190-192.
part 3 Vol. 3, No. 4. (Apr., 1895), pp. 242-245.
part 4 Vol. 4, No. 1. (Jul., 1895), pp. 18-22.
Other Witches Vol. 2, No. 1. (Jul., 1893), pp. 58-60.
Other Witches Vol. 1, No. 3. (Jan., 1893), pp. 127-129.
Increase Mather, Remarkable Providences(1683) excerpts (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
Cotton Mather, Discourse on Witchcraft (1689) excerpts (in progress) (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
Salem Witchcraft Papers (Witchcraft in Salem Village)
Deodat Lawson, A Brief and True Narrative (1692) (Witchcraft in Salem)
Letter of Thomas Brattle, 1692 (Witchcraft in Salem)
Letters of Governor Phips to the Home Government, 1692-93 (Witchcraft in Salem)
Cotton Mathers, Wonders of the Invisible World (1693) (Witchcraft in Salem)
Increase Mathers, Cases of Conscience concerning Evil Spirits (1693) (University of Virginia) excerpts
Thomas Maule, Truth Held Forth and Maintained (1695) (University of Virginia) excerpts
Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700) (Witchcraft in Salem)
John Hale, A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft (1702) (Witchcraft in Salem)
Secondary Sources
John Demos, "John Godfrey and His Neighbors: Witchcraft and the Social Web in C... William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser., Vol. 33, No. 2. (Apr., 1976), pp. 242-265. (JSTOR access only)
John Demos, "Underlying Themes in the Witchcraft of Seventeenth-Century New Eng... The American Historical Review, Vol. 75, No. 5. (Jun., 1970), pp. 1311-1326. (JSTOR access only)
Frederick C. Drake, "Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-62" American Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4. (Winter, 1968), pp. 694-725. See the Levine article below (JSTOR access only)
Phyllis J. Guskin, "The Context of Witchcraft: The Case of Jane Wenham (1712)" Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1. (Autumn, 1981), pp. 48-71. (JSTOR access only)
Ann Kibbey, "Mutations of the Supernatural: Witchcraft, Remarkable Providences,... American Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 2. (Summer, 1982), pp. 125-148. (JSTOR access only)
G. L. Kittredge, "A Case of Witchcraft" The American Historical Review, Vol. 23, No. 1. (Oct., 1917), pp. 1-19.(JSTOR access only)
Stuart Levine, "Some Words for Witch-Watchers" (in Notes) American Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 2, Part 1. (Summer, 1969), pp. 267-268. (JSTOR access only)
E. William Monter, "Witchcraft in Geneva, 1537-1662" The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 43, No. 2. (Jun., 1971), pp. 179-204.(JSTOR access only)
Dennison Nash, "A Convergence of Psychological and Sociological Explanations of Wi... Current Anthropology, Vol. 14, No. 5. (Dec., 1973), pp. 545-546. (JSTOR access only)
Frank Wesley Pitman, "Fetishism, Witchcraft, and Christianity Among the Slaves" (in Slavery on British West India Plantations in the Eighteenth Century) Journal of Negro History, Vol. 11, No. 4. (Oct., 1926), pp. 650-668. (JSTOR access only)
John M. Steadman, "Eve's Dream and the Conventions of Witchcraft" (in Notes) Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 26, No. 4. (Oct. - Dec., 1965), pp. 567-574. (JSTOR access only)
John L. Teall "Witchcraft and Calvinism in Elizabethan England: Divine Power and ... Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 23, No. 1. (Jan. - Mar., 1962), pp. 21-36. (JSTOR access only)
Richard Trask, Introduction to A Documentary History of the Salem Village Witchcra... (Witchcraft in Salem)
Helen P. Trimpi "Melville's Use of Demonology and Witchcraft in Moby-Dick" Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 30, No. 4. (Oct. - Dec., 1969), pp. 543-562. (JSTOR access only)
Richard H. Werking, "'Reformation Is Our Only Preservation': Cotton Mather and Salem Wi... (in Notes and Documents) William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser., Vol. 29, No. 2. (Apr., 1972), pp. 281-290. (JSTOR access only)
Russell Zguta, "Witchcraft Trials in Seventeenth-Century Russia" The American Historical Review, Vol. 82, No. 5. (Dec., 1977), pp. 1187-1207. (JSTOR access only)
Resources
Witchcraft in Salem Village (Danvers Archival Center and Electronic Text Center, U. of Virginia)
Witchcraft Bibliography Project (Jeffrey Merrick, Richard M. Golden)
New Works on the Witch Hunts (Stella Australis, Witchcraft Craze History)
Chronology of the Salem Witch Trials (Salem)
Joan's Witch Directory (Joan Pontius)
Steph's Witch Hunt Page
The Witching Hours
The Witch Trials (D. Nix)
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Patchwork Merchant Mercenaries had its humble beginnings as an idea of a few artisans and craftsmen who enjoy performing with live steel fighting. As well as a patchwork quilt tent canvas. Most had prior military experience hence the name.
Patchwork Merchant Mercenaries.
Vendertainers that brought many things to a show and are know for helping out where ever they can.
As well as being a place where the older hand made items could be found made by them and enjoyed by all.
We expanded over the years to become well known at what we do. Now we represent over 100 artisans and craftsman that are well known in their venues and some just starting out. Some of their works have been premiered in TV, stage and movies on a regular basis.
Specializing in Medieval, Goth , Stage Film, BDFSM and Practitioner.
Patchwork Merchant Mercenaries a Dept of, Ask For IT was started by artists and former military veterans, and sword fighters, representing over 100 artisans, one who made his living traveling from fair to festival vending medieval wares. The majority of his customers are re-enactors, SCAdians and the like, looking to build their kit with period clothing, feast gear, adornments, etc.
Likewise, it is typical for these history-lovers to peruse the tent (aka mobile store front) and, upon finding something that pleases the eye, ask "Is this period?"
A deceitful query!! This is not a yes or no question. One must have a damn good understanding of European history (at least) from the fall of Rome to the mid-1600's to properly answer. Taking into account, also, the culture in which the querent is dressed is vitally important. You see, though it may be well within medieval period, it would be strange to see a Viking wearing a Caftan...or is it?
After a festival's time of answering weighty questions such as these, I'd sleep like a log! Only a mad man could possibly remember the place and time for each piece of kitchen ware, weaponry, cloth, and chain within a span of 1,000 years!! Surely there must be an easier way, a place where he could post all this knowledge...
Traveling Within The World is meant to be such a place. A place for all of these artists to keep in touch and directly interact with their fellow geeks and re-enactment hobbyists, their clientele.
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