1st Edition
Agents of the Invisible World Children and Witchcraft in England and New England, 1589–1692
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Maps
Introduction: Troublesome Children and the Trouble with Children
Chapter One: Understanding Concepts of the ‘Child’, ‘Childhood’ and
Their Role in Witch-Hunting More Broadly
Chapter Two: Pre-1589, The Children Who Set the Scene
Chapter Three: 1589-1604, The Children that Shook the Adult World
Chapter Four: 1612-1662, The Children Who Called the Shots and the Children No One Believed
Chapter Five: 1648-1688, The New English Children that Set the Scene and
the Children that Shook the Adult World
Chapter Six: 1692, The Children Who Devastated New England
Conclusion: 1692 and Beyond, The Children that Tried Anything
Epilogue
Appendix A: Catalogue of Children in English Witchcraft Trials
Appendix B: Catalogue of Children in New English Witchcraft Trials
Select Bibliography
Index
Biography
Molly Northcott received her PhD at the University of New England, Australia. Her current research focuses on the different roles children played in early modern English and New English witchcraft trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ever since studying early modern witch-hunting as an undergraduate at UNE in 2017, Northcott has become fascinated by the subject. Her research interests focus on witchcraft trials in England and New England as well as issues and questions of youth, gender, motivation, agency and fraud.
