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Witchcraft and Whigs
The life of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660–1739)
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English
Published/Copyright:
2008
About this book
This ground-breaking biography of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1669-1739) provides a detailed and rare portrait of an early eighteenth century Irish bishop and witchcraft theorist. Drawing upon a wealth of printed primary source material, the book aims to increase our understanding of the eighteenth-century established clergy, both in England and Ireland. It illustrates how one of the main sceptical texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Historical essay concerning witchcraft (1718), was constructed and how it fitted into the wider intellectual and literary context of the time, examining Hutchinson’s views on contemporary debates concerning modern prophecy and miracles, demonic and Satanic intervention, the nature of Angels and hell, and astrology.
This book will be of particular interest to academics and students in the areas of history of witchcraft, and the religious, political and social history of Britain and Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
This book will be of particular interest to academics and students in the areas of history of witchcraft, and the religious, political and social history of Britain and Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Andrew Sneddon
Andrew Sneddon is Lecturer in International History at the University of Ulster
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Front matter
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Dedication
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Epigraph
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Contents
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Preface
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Notes on quotations
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List of abbreviations
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Introduction
1 - Part I England
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1 Childhood and early career, 1660–c.1690
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2 The national Church in a Suffolk parish
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3 ‘A well affected man’
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4 Angels and demons
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5 Hutchinson and witchcraft
93 - Part II Ireland
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6 The Bishop of Down and Connor and the established Church and state in Ireland, 1721–39
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7 ‘Darkness must be expell’d by bringing in the light’
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8 ‘Improve everything that is improveable’
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Conclusion
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Select bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
September 13, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781526130716
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eBook ISBN:
9781526130716
Keywords for this book
archetypal eighteenth-century Protestant bibliophile; Church; economic improvement; England; Francis Hutchinson; Hanoverian regime; Ireland; political hegemony; social improvement; Whig; witchcraft
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
