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Witchcraft and the Act of 1604

Witchcraft and the Act of 1604 Book Reviews / CHRC . () –  © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden,  DOI: 10.1163/187124110X545218 John Newton and Jo Bath (Eds.), Witchcraft and the Act of  [Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ]. Brill, Leiden/Boston , xii +  pp. ISBN . ; US. While witchcraft was not a felony under common law until , England in the late Middle Ages still experienced its share of “treason- cum -sorcery” trials involving members of its political elite. Perhaps the most famous case of this type came in , with the trial of Eleanor Cobham, second wife and former mistress of Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, the brother of King Henry V. Cobham escaped the death penalty, but one of her female associates was burned as a witch, while a reputed astrologer was hanged, and then drawn and quartered for treason. English monarchs thought themselves vulnerable to treasonous sorcery up to the reign of James I (ruled –). More prosaically, local court records contain scattered references to trials for witchcraft and sorcery. These references are too dispersed and insufficiently detailed to permit any comprehensive analysis of early witchcraft trials in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Most of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Church History and Religious Culture (formerly Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis) Brill

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© 2010 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/187124110X545218
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Book Reviews / CHRC . () –  © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden,  DOI: 10.1163/187124110X545218 John Newton and Jo Bath (Eds.), Witchcraft and the Act of  [Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ]. Brill, Leiden/Boston , xii +  pp. ISBN . ; US. While witchcraft was not a felony under common law until , England in the late Middle Ages still experienced its share of “treason- cum -sorcery” trials involving members of its political elite. Perhaps the most famous case of this type came in , with the trial of Eleanor Cobham, second wife and former mistress of Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, the brother of King Henry V. Cobham escaped the death penalty, but one of her female associates was burned as a witch, while a reputed astrologer was hanged, and then drawn and quartered for treason. English monarchs thought themselves vulnerable to treasonous sorcery up to the reign of James I (ruled –). More prosaically, local court records contain scattered references to trials for witchcraft and sorcery. These references are too dispersed and insufficiently detailed to permit any comprehensive analysis of early witchcraft trials in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Most of the

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