Talk: Rethinking the decline of witchcraft in early Modern England

The Arts Institute
Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building
University of Plymouth
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AA

Tel: 01752 585050

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Ticket information: £6/£4.20/Friends free/Historical Association members free/UoP students free via SPiA

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Dr Peter Elmer provides an alternative approach to understanding one of the more complex and disputed aspects of witchcraft in early modern England, namely its demise. He discusses a wealth of new material, arguing that politics, rather than scientific or intellectual advance, provides a more convincing context in which to understand the gradual erosion of belief in witchcraft and an end to witch trials in late 17th- and early 18th-century England.

Peter is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Exeter.

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