The Archbishop and the Lord Chief Justice: dispossessions and the clash of jurisdictions in Jacobean England
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Article Title | The Archbishop and the Lord Chief Justice: dispossessions and the clash of jurisdictions in Jacobean England |
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ERA Journal ID | 201397 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Harmes, Marcus |
Journal Title | Preternature |
Journal Citation | 3 (1), pp. 32-55 |
Number of Pages | 24 |
Year | 2014 |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 2161-2188 |
2161-2196 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1353/prn.2014.0013 |
Web Address (URL) | https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/preternature/toc/prn.3.1.html |
Abstract | Senior members of the English Church became involved in cases of possession and dispossession in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. They sought to exonerate women accused of witchcraft, and their involvement led to the disproving of the efficacy of dispossessions performed by anti-episcopal ministers. Although a number of bishops intervened in witchcraft |
Keywords | Richard Bancroft; John Darrel; High Commission; Sir Edmund Anderson; witchcraft trials; England; Samuel Harsnet (d. 1631) |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 430304. British history |
Public Notes | Copyright © 2014 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. |
Byline Affiliations | Open Access College |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q25wy/the-archbishop-and-the-lord-chief-justice-dispossessions-and-the-clash-of-jurisdictions-in-jacobean-england
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