02.46 - Witch Hunters on Trial

Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, faces humiliation on
multiple fronts. His critics are uniting, his prosecutions are
falling, and the ruinous cost of hiring him suddenly seems less
worthwhile. Check out the podcast website Check out Pax Britannica
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makes use of the following texts: - Gaskill, Malcolm,
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005)
- Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in
Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002 - Purkiss,
DIane, The English Civil War: A People's History, (2007)
- Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft
Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century
England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002 -
Peter Elmer, Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early
Modern England, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) - Gaskill,
Malcolm, ‘Witchcraft Trials in England’, in Levack, Brian (ed.) The
Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial
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