LEADER 00000nam 2200409 i 4500 001 sky301909846 003 SKY 005 20210301124634.0 008 200903t20202020nyua e b 001 0ceng 015 GBB9D3667 016 7 019494478 020 9781643133324 020 1643133322 040 BKCT|beng|erda|cBKCT|dSKYRV|dUtOrBLW 043 e-uk--- 092 133.43082|bJOA 100 1 Hollman, Gemma,|eauthor. 245 10 Royal witches :|bwitchcraft and the nobility in fifteenth- century England /|cGemma Hollman. 250 First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. 264 1 New York :|bPegasus Books,|c2020. 264 4 |c©2020 300 320 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 336 still image|bsti|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 Reprint. Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by The History Press. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 "Until the mass hysteria of the seventeenth century, accusations of witchcraft in England were rare. However, four royal women, related in family and in court ties<U+ 2014>Joan of Navarre, Eleanor Cobham, Jacquetta of Luxembourg and Elizabeth Woodville<U+2014>were accused of practicing witchcraft in order to kill or influence the king. Some of these women may have turned to the zdark artsy in order to divine the future or obtain healing potions, but the purpose of the accusations was purely political. Despite their status, these women were vulnerable because of their gender, as the men around them moved them like pawns for political gains. In Royal Witches, Gemma Hollman explores the lives and the cases of these so-called witches, placing them in the historical context of fifteenth-century England, a setting rife with political upheaval and war. In a time when the line between science and magic was blurred, these trials offer a tantalizing insight into how malicious magic would be used and would later cause such mass hysteria in centuries to come"--Amazon.ca 600 00 Eleanor,|cof Gloucester, Duchess,|d1391-1447. 600 00 Jacquetta,|cDuchess of Bedford,|d1416?-1472. 600 00 Elizabeth,|cQueen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, |d1437?-1492. 650 0 Witches|zGreat Britain|xHistory. 650 0 Witch hunting|zGreat Britain|xHistory. 650 0 Queens|zGreat Britain|xHistory.
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