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A defence of witchcraft belief : a sixteenth-century response to Reginald Scot's Discoverie of witchcraft /

This is the first published edition of an extraordinary manuscript on witchcraft in the collection of the British Library, written by an unknown sixteenth-century scholar. Responding to a pre-publication draft of Reginald Scot's sceptical Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), the treatise represents...

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Other Authors:	Pudney, Eric (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Scot, Reginald, > 1538?-1599. > Discoverie of witchcraft. Witchcraft > Early works to 1800. Witchcraft > Great Britain. Great Britain > History > Elizabeth, 1558-1603.

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