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Title Perspectives on witchcraft : rethinking the seventeenth-century New England experience : a selection of papers from the tenth Salem Conference / sponsored by the Essex Institute ... [et al.].

Imprint Salem, Mass. : Essex Institute, c1993.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  133.4309744 P432 1993    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 118 pages : facsims. ; 23 cm.
Series Essex Institute historical collections ; v. 129, no. 1
Essex Institute historical collections ; v. 129, no. 1.
Note Cover title.
"Held in Salem, Massachusetts, 18-20 June 1992 in the tercentenary commemoration of the witchcraft trial victims."
"January 1993"--P. [1].
Contents Eros, the Devil, and the cunning woman / Louis J. Kern -- Spreading the news of Satan's malignity in Salem / Mary Rhinelander McCarl -- Defending against the indefensible / Daniel G. Payne -- "Ordinary" preaching and the interpretation of the Salem witchcraft crisis of the Boston clergy / Mark A. Peterson -- Witches, sinners, and the underside of covenant theology / Elizabeth Reis.
Subject Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem.
Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem.
Added Author Essex Institute.
Salem Conference (10th : 1992 : Salem, Mass.)

 
    
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