Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-250) and index.
Contents:
6. The strangness of the familiar : witchcraft and the law in early modern England / 1. Bodily control and social unease : the fast in seventeenth century England / Garthine Walker. 2. The ambition of a young Baronet : Sir Thomas Isham of Lamport, 1657-1681 / Anthony Fletcher -- 3. Robert Robertes and Little Cis : an extraordinary relationship / Ralph Houlbrooke -- 4. Punishing words : insults and injuries, 1525-1700 / Paul Griffiths -- 5. The world of Poor Robin's intelligence : comedy and communication in late Stuart London / David M. Turner -- 6. The strangness of the familiar : witchcraft and the law in early modern England / Garthine Walker. 13. Publications by Professor Bernard Capp / 7. Ann Jeffries and the fairies : folk belief and the war on scepticism in later Stuart England / compiled by Tim Reinke-Williams. 8. Wyclif's Well : Lollardy, landscape and memory in post-Reformation England / Alexandra Walsham -- 9. 'Boilded and stewed with roots and herbs' : everyday tales of cannibalism in early modern Virginia / Catherine Armstrong -- 10. Glimpses of the obscure : the Witch Trials of the Channel Islands / Darryl Ogier -- 11. The extraordinary case of the blood-drinking and flesh-eating cavaliers / Angela McShane -- 12. Mother Shipton an the Devil / Darren Oldridge -- 13. 'Bleeding afreshe'? : the affray and murder at Nantwich, 19 December 1572 / Steve Hindle -- Publications by Professor Bernard Capp / compiled by Tim Reinke-Williams.
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