Witchcraft: The Basics

Introduction; Chapter One The early modern context: a case study of early modern Britain; Chapter Two The seventeenth and early eighteenth century context: America as the major case study; Chapter Three Witchcraft in early modern literature: "the witchcraft renaissance"; Chapter Four Witchcraft Studies; Chapter Five Witchcraft Today: Religious Redefinitions; Chapter Six Reinventing the good witch; Further Study Reading List; Index

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• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Peças de Shakespeare
• História Medieval
• Religião: geral
• Início da história moderna: c 1450/1500 a c 1700
• Feitiçaria
• História inglesa e irlandesa
• História das Américas
• História moderna para o século 20: c1700 a c 1900
• Religiões ecléticas e esotérico e sistemas de crenças

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