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John Webster, the Royal Society and The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft (1677)

Author(s) -

Michael Hunter

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

notes and records the royal society journal of the history of science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19

H-Index - 18

eISSN - 1743-0178

pISSN - 0035-9149

DOI - 10.1098/rsnr.2016.0022

Subject(s) - ambivalence , state (computer science) , law , sociology , political science , classics , art , psychoanalysis , psychology , algorithm , computer science

This paper publishes for the first time the dedication to the Royal Society that John Webster wrote for his Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft (1677), but which failed to appear in the published work. It also investigates the circumstances in which the book received the Royal Society's imprimatur, in the light of the Society's ambivalent attitude towards witchcraft and related phenomena in its early years. The paper concludes that the role of Sir Jonas Moore as Vice-President in licensing the book was highly irregular, evidently reflecting the troubled state of the Society in the mid to late 1670s.

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