The ruin of all witches

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A gripping story of a family tragedy brought about by witch-hunting in Puritan New England that combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology.

“The best and most enjoyable kind of history writing. Malcolm Gaskill goes to meet the past on its own terms and in its own place…Thought-provoking and absorbing." —Hilary Mantel, best-selling author of Wolf Hall

In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics and the community becomes tangled in a web of distrust, resentment and denunciation. The finger of suspicion soon falls on a young couple with two small children: the prickly brickmaker, Hugh Parsons, and his troubled wife, Mary.

Drawing on rich, previously unexplored source material, Malcolm Gaskill vividly evokes a strange past, one where lives were steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in omens, curses and enchantments. The Ruin of All Witches captures an entire society caught in agonized transition between superstition and enlightenment, tradition and innovation.

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the sunday times bestseller shortlisted for the wolfson history prize a times sunday times and bbc history book of the year a bona fide historical classic sunday times simply one of the best history books i have ever read bbc history in the frontier town of springfield in 1651 peculiar Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

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the sunday times bestseller shortlisted for the wolfson history prize a times sunday times and bbc history book of the year a bona fide historical classic sunday times simply one of the best history books i have ever read bbc historyin the frontier town of springfield in 1651 peculiar things Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

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Brought to you by penguin a times sunday times and bbc history history book of the year 2021 in the frontier town of springfield in 1651 peculiar things begin to happen precious food spoils livestock ails and property vanishes people suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 november 2022

Aantal pagina's: 336

Hoofdauteur: Malcolm Gaskill

Hoofduitgeverij: Alfred A. Knopf

Product breedte: 169 mm

Product hoogte: 30 mm

Product lengte: 244 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 160 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 36 mm

Verpakking lengte: 234 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 1122 g

EAN: 9780593316573

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