Witchcraft and Whigs ：The life of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660–1739)

Publication subTitle ：The life of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660–1739)

Author： SneddonAndrew  

Publisher： Manchester University Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781526130716

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780719096785

Subject： K5 European History

Keyword： 欧洲史

Language： ENG

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The first detailed account of the life and work of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660-1739), author of one of the most important witchcraft texts of the early modern period, An historical essay concerning witchcraft (1718). This work has captivated readers for centuries and still a vital source for those investigating witchcraft trials of the period

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Witchcraft and Whigs: The life of Bishop Francis Hutchinson, 1660–1739

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Notes on Quotations

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: England

1. Childhood and early career, 1660–c.1690

2. The national Church in a Suffolk parish: St James’, Bury St Edmunds, 1692–1720

3. ‘A well affected man’: Hutchinson and party politics, 1700-20

4. Angels and demons: the mental world of an eighteenth-century Anglican pastor

5. Hutchinson and witchcraft: An historical essay concerning witchcraft (1718)

Part II: Ireland

6. The Bishop of Down and Connor and the established Church and state in Ireland, 1721–39

7. ‘Darkness must be expell’d by bringing in the light’: the conversion of Irish Catholics, c.1721–34

8. ‘Improve everything that is improveable’: the social, economic and cultural improvement of Ireland and the Irish, 1721–39

Conclusion

Select bibliography

Index

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