| ISBN |
0241413389 (hardback)
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| ISBN13桁 |
9780241413388 (hardback)
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| 無効なISBN等 |
9780241413401 (ePub ebook)
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| テキストの言語 |
英語
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| 分類：NDC10版 |
253.03
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| 個人著者標目 |
Gaskill, Malcolm.
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| 本タイトル |
The ruin of all witches :
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| タイトル関連情報 |
life and death in the New World /
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| 著者名 |
Malcolm Gaskill.
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| 出版地・頒布地 |
[London], UK :
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| 出版者・頒布者名 |
Allen Lane,
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| 出版年・頒布年 |
2021,
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| 数量 |
xxiv, 308 pages :
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| 他の形態的事項 |
maps ;
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| 大きさ |
24 cm.
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| 書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| 内容注記 |
Introduction -- A voice that said 'death' -- Here we must be happy -- Temptations of desire -- Sleeveless errands -- I hear my child is dead -- Strange dreams -- That dumb dog -- Converse with the Devil -- New witchland -- Epilogue: an end to all affection.
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| 要約、抄録、注釈等 |
"In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community becomes tangled in a web of spite, distrust and denunciation. The finger of suspicion falls on a young couple struggling to make a home and feed their children: Hugh Parsons the irascible brickmaker and his troubled wife, Mary. It will be their downfall. The Ruin of All Witches tells the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation. These were the turbulent beginnings of colonial America, when English settlers' dreams of love and liberty, of founding a 'city on a hill', gave way to paranoia and terror, enmity and rage. Drawing on uniquely rich, previously neglected source material, Malcolm Gaskill brings to life a New World existence steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in curses and enchantments, and precariously balanced between life and death. Through the gripping micro-history of a family tragedy, we glimpse an entire society caught in agonized transition between supernatural obsessions and the age of enlightenment. We see, in short, the birth of the modern world"--Publisher's description.
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| 一般件名 |
Witch hunting -- History -- Springfield -- 17th century.
Witchcraft -- History -- Springfield -- 17th century. |
| 地名件名 |
Springfield (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
Massachusetts -- Springfield. |
| 資料情報1 |
『The ruin of all witches :
life and death in the New World /』 Malcolm Gaskill. Allen Lane, 2021,
（所蔵館：中央
請求記号：F/253.0/G24/R
資料コード：7115562361）
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| URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352055930 |
