Witchcraft and the Act of 1604 / edited by John Newton and Jo Bath.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

xi, 248 pages ; 25 cm.

Based on a conference held in Mar. 2004 at St. John's College, Durham.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Witchcraft, witch codes, witch act / John Newton -- King James's experience of witches, and the 1604 English Witchcraft Act / P.G. Maxwell-Stuart -- Standing within the prospect of belief : Macbeth, King James, and witchcraft / Roy Booth -- Witchcraft and possession at the accession of James I : the publication of Samuel Harsnett's Declaration of egregious popish impostures / Clive Holmes -- (Re)possession of dispossession : John Darrell and diabolical discourse / Tom Webster -- Applying the act of 1604 : witches in Essex, Northamptonshire and Lancashire / Marion Gibson -- The treatment of potential witches in north-east England, c. 1649-1680 / Jo Bath -- Witchcraft and stage spectacle : spectacular witches after 1604 / Chris Brooks -- Witchcraft, emotion and imagination in the English Civil War / Malcolm Gaskill -- The politics of Pandaemonium / Jonathan Barry -- Decriminalising the witch : the origin of and response to the 1736 Witchcraft Act / Owen Davies -- The Witchcraft Act of 1563 (5 Eliz I, c. 16) -- The Witchcraft Act of 1604 (1 Jas. I, c. 12) -- Canon 72 of the Church of England (1604) -- The Witchcraft Act of 1736 (9 Geo. II, c. 5).