Lancashire Witches

Robert Poole is Reader in History at St. Martin's College, Lancaster

• Preface - Robert PooleAcknowledgements1. Introduction: the Lancashire witches in historical context - James SharpeI. THE TRIALS OF 16122. Potts, plots and politics: James I’s Daemonologie and The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches - Stephen Pumfrey3. Thomas Potts’s ‘dusty memory’: reconstructing justice in The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches - Marion Gibson4. ‘Those to whom evil is done’: family dynamics in the Pendle witch trials - Jonathan LumbyII. CONTEXTS: SOCIETY, ECONOMY, RELIGION AND MAGIC5. Witchcraft, economy and society in the forest of Pendle - John Swain6. The Reformation in the parish of Whalley - Michael Mullett7. Beyond Pendle: the ‘lost’ Lancashire witches - Kirsteen Macpherson BardellIII. REWRITING THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES8. The pilot’s thumb: Macbeth and the Jesuits - Richard Wilson9. The Late Lancashire Witches: sexual and spiritual politics in the events of 1633-4 - Alison Findlay10. The ‘Lancashire novelist’ and the Lancashire witches - Jeffrey Richards11. Wicca, paganism, and history: contemporary witchcraft and the Lancashire witches - Joanne PearsonBibliography