Description
An introduction to European alchemy and a history of the practise of witchcraft and magic from the fourteenth century through to the seventeenth century.
William H. Davenport Adams presents the work of magicians and astrologers from fourteenth-century England through to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. First published in 1889, this volume gives historical accounts of witchcraft and records of witch trials.
Featuring the following chapters:
- – The English Magicians
- – Roger Bacon: The True and the Legendary
- – The Story of Dr. John Dee
- – The Last of the English Magicians: William Lilly
- – Witches and Witchcraft
- – Early History of Witchcraft in England
- – The Decline of Witchcraft in England
- – The Literature of Witchcraft
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