02.42 - The Devil Hath His Chapel

The Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins, did not exist in a
vacuum. How could this man, who had no formal authority, tour
South-East England and not only execute hundreds of 'witches', but
find cheering crowds and grateful magistrates waiting for him?
Today's episode will examine the possible reasons why the Hopkins
witch craze was so exceptional in its scale and brutality. Check
out the podcast website Check out Pax Britannica Merch! Facebook |
Twitter | Patreon | Donate This episode primarily made use of the
following texts: - Gaskill, Malcolm, ‘Witchcraft Trials in
England’, in Levack, B. P. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft
in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America (Oxford, 2013) -
Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge,
Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002 - Elmer,
Peter,Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern
England, (Oxford, 2016) - Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and
Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in
Seventeenth-Century England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The
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