1st Edition
Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover Case
Edited By Michael MacDonald
Copyright 1991
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
Witchcraft was at its height in Elizabethan London. Edward Jorden showed that hysteria and not demons lay behind the witch-craze. Edward Jorden's Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother (1603) is said to have reclaimed the demoniacally possessed for medicine and to have introduced the concept of hysteria into English psychiatry. The aim of this book is to reassess the... Read more
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Michael MacDonald
