In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of
Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. This book focuses on possession and …

Covering the period from Antiquity to Early Modernity, A Historical Sociology of Disability
argues that disabled people have been treated in Western society as good to mistreat and …

Seeming Knowledge revisits the question of Shakespeare and religion by focusing on the
conjunction of faith and skepticism in his writing. Cox argues that the relationship between …

Why does Catholicism have such an imaginative hold on Shakespearean drama, even
though the on-going Reformation outlawed its practice? Shakespeare's Unreformed Fictions …

Tells a story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years
of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic …

Reginald Scot's Discouerie of Witchcraft (1584) is the first extant treatise on witchcraft by an
English author. This alone would make it a notable work, but its real interest lies in the fact …

The fictional Don Quixote was constantly defeated in his knightly adventures. In writing
Quixote's story, however, Miguel Cervantes succeeded in a different kind of quest the …

In Inscribed Power, Ryan D. Giles explores the function of amuletic prayers, divine names,
and incantation formulas that were inscribed and printed on parchment, paper and other …

This volume in the long-running and acclaimed Shakespeare Dictionary series is a detailed,
critical reference work examining all aspects of magic, good and evil, across Shakespeare's …

Shakespeare's three political tragedies_Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear_have numerously
been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of …