Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England (Paperback, 1)

Introduction: the intersections of supernatural and secular power, Victoria Bladen and Marcus Harmes. Part I Magic at Court: John Dee, alchemy and authority in Elizabethan England, Glyn Parry; Reginald Scot and the circles of power: witchcraft, anti-catholicism and faction politics, Pierre Kapitaniak; Treasonous Catholic magic and the 1563 witchcraft legislation: the English state’s response to Catholic conjuring in the early years of Elizabeth I’s reign, Michael Devine. Part II Performance, Text and Language: Shaping supernatural identity in The Witch of Edmonton (1621), Victoria Bladen; ‘Mong’st the furies finde just recompence’: suicide and the supernatural in William Sampson’s The Vow Breaker (1636), Fiona Martin; ‘You shal reade marvellous straunge things’: Ludwig Lavater and the hauntings of the Reformation, Catherine Stevens; The politics of supernatural wonders in Paradise Lost, Martin Dawes. Part III Witchcraft, the Devil and the Body: The Devil and bishops in Post-Reformation England, Marcus Harmes; Sleeping with devils: the sexual witch in 17^{th-century England, Charlotte-Rose Millar. Index.}