The devil in disguise [electronic resource] : deception, delusion, and fanaticism in the early English enlightenment / Mark Knights.

9780191804472 (ebook) :

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

1 online resource (xvii, 279 p.) : ill., ports.

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This study illuminates the impact of the two British revolutions of the seventeenth century and the shifts in religious, political, scientific, literary, economic, social, and moral culture that they brought about. The book does so through the fascinating story of one family and their locality: the Cowpers of Hertford. Their dramatic history contains a murder mystery, bigamy, a scandal novel, and a tyrannized wife, all set against a backdrop of violently competing local factions, rampant religious prejudice, and the last conviction of a witch in England.

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September 01, 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index.