Imagen de Google Jackets

The Discoverie of Witchcraft

Por: Colaborador(es): Tipo de material: TextoIdioma: en Editor: Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2019Descripción: 1 online resource : multiple file formatsTipo de contenido:
  • text
Tipo de medio:
  • computer
Tipo de soporte:
  • online resource
Tema(s): Clasificación LoC:
  • BF
Recursos en línea: Créditos de producción:
  • Produced by David Starner, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Resumen: "The Discoverie of Witchcraft" by Reginald Scot is a book published in 1584, intended as an exposé of early modern witchcraft. Scot argued that prosecuting accused witches was irrational and un-Christian, blaming the Roman Church for perpetuating these beliefs. The work also contains the first published material on stage magic, revealing how charlatans deceived the public. This controversial book influenced Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and sparked decades of heated theological debate, with King James VI calling Scot's opinions "damnable." (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Etiquetas de esta biblioteca: No hay etiquetas de esta biblioteca para este título. Ingresar para agregar etiquetas.
Valoración
    Valoración media: 0.0 (0 votos)
No hay ítems correspondientes a este registro

Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discoverie_of_Witchcraft

Release date is 2019-11-22

Produced by David Starner, Robert Tonsing, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive)

"The Discoverie of Witchcraft" by Reginald Scot is a book published in 1584, intended as an exposé of early modern witchcraft. Scot argued that prosecuting accused witches was irrational and un-Christian, blaming the Roman Church for perpetuating these beliefs. The work also contains the first published material on stage magic, revealing how charlatans deceived the public. This controversial book influenced Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and sparked decades of heated theological debate, with King James VI calling Scot's opinions "damnable." (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Original publication data not identified

No hay comentarios en este titulo.

para colocar un comentario.