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02361aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 4642817C4DCE11E89F5D1D5C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180502010046 008 170605s2018 xxk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1788310217 020 $a 9781788310215 035 $a (OCoLC)989056971 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d WTU $d OCLCO $d FGM $d QGK $d ZVP $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en 050 4 $a DA44 Y68 2018 100 1 $a Young, Francis $q (Francis Kendrick), $e author. 245 10 $a Magic as a political crime in medieval and early modern England : $b a history of sorcery and treason / $c Francis Young. 264 1 $a London : $b I.B. Tauris, $c 2018. 300 $a xviii, 254 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a International library of historical studies ; $v 107 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the 'superstition' embodied by magic came to be associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the convictions of undesirables, magic was also perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond. 650 0 $a Witchcraft $x History $z England $x History $y To 1500. 830 0 $a International library of historical studies ; $v 107. 941 $a 3 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20210723014927.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200103021340.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211021536.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4642817C4DCE11E89F5D1D5C97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search