Witchcraft Flashcards
1
Q
Maxwell-Stuart
Before 1563
2
A
- 1538- Bishop of Salisbury told his clergy to ‘admonish’ midwives not to use ‘traditional Catholic practices’
- ‘women were not at the forefront of legislators minds’
2
Q
Haigh
Elizabeth I
4
A
- ‘acting like a powerful ruler’
- ‘weakness of Tudor kingship’
- ‘narrowly based government’
- ‘ideological loyalty to Protestantism’
3
Q
Jones
Elizabeth I
5
A
- ‘nature of superdtitio’
- ‘Catholic belief’
- ‘Antichrist’
- ‘Elton’s contention that the Council spilt’
- ‘plot to kill the queen’
- ‘government did have an interest’
4
Q
Maxwell-Stuart
Elizabeth I
5
A
- ‘Guernsey was under pressure from the English government to surrender Catholicism’
- 1570- ‘isolates incidents’
- ‘scapegoats for the islands troubles’
- ‘government did not set about any large-scale active programme of suppression of magical workers’
- ‘1563 Witchcraft Act represented the fears and concerns of its sponsors’
5
Q
Purkiss
Shakespeare
1
A
- ‘witches in Macbeth are unsexed’
6
Q
MacGregor
James I
1
A
- ‘James does nonetheless seem to have been one gradually more cautious about witchcraft’
7
Q
Purkiss
Civil War
5
A
- ‘both sides also used the figure of the witch as a propaganda weapon’
- ‘Oliver Cromwell and Prince Rupert’
- ‘Cromwell was likened to a witch’
- ‘witch as spy, plotter, or secret agent’
- Manningtree ‘both center of activity and geographically marginal’
8
Q
Davies
Civil War
4
A
- ‘long-repressed witch-mania burst out again with violence’
- ‘career of a witch-finder must have made double appeal to him‘
- ‘staunch Puritan…pious labour of destroying the works of the Devil’
- ‘ladder to fame and fortune’
9
Q
Sharpe
Civil War: Hopkins
1
A
- ‘Matthew Hopkins trials offer a challenge to that standard interpretation of English witchcraft which stresses its roots in neighbourly tensions and village disputes’
10
Q
Gaskill
Civil War
1
A
- ‘before the 1640s various institutions in England prevented witchcraft accusations from getting out of hand. Crown, Privy Council…Courts of Commission, Kings Bench and Star Chamber, and the assize judges’
11
Q
Sharpe
Decline of Witchcraft
2
A
- ‘fear of atheism’
- ‘impact of the Scientific Revolution doesn’t really work’
12
Q
Thomas
Decline of Witchcraft
4
A
- ‘Thomas Hobbes and followers of Descartes, rejected the whole concept of incorporeal substances’
- ‘never be capable of possessing men’s bodies or assuming human form’
- ‘witch-beliefs lasted longest in the village communities’
- ‘witchcraft accusation was endemic’
13
Q
Hole
Persistence of Witchcraft
2
A
- ‘ebbing tide’
- ‘outburst of mob violence’
14
Q
Hester
Women
2
A
- ‘maintaining and restoring male supremacy’
- ‘sex specific’
