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dc.contributor.authorO'Brien, Karen
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-06
dc.date.available2014-01-06
dc.date.issued2013-01-01
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2123/9882
dc.descriptionPrimary legal manuscript sources provide an account of popular medicine in northwest England that may have parallels with other regions. Although cunning folk had practiced popular medicine in the community for many centuries, by the seventeenth century Puritan Justices of the Peace in local Quarter Sessions courts had demonized their healing activities, and, by the early seventeenth century, local practitioners of medicine became susceptible to accusations of charges of sorcery.en_AU
dc.description.abstractResearch into the ecclesiastical court records of Northwest England suggests that legal accusations initiated by the community were spontaneous demonstrations of fear that increased during periods of social dislocation, principally when large numbers of children died at any one time in a particular community. There is evidence to suggest that the cunning folk were caught up in these community outpourings of anguish and were often held responsible by members of the community for causing the misfortune. The primary documents consulted for this investigation provide an important historical source. They offer an insight into a little understood social account of the widespread affairs and popular form of treatment that contributes a unique perspective of popular medicine and the connection with the supernatural world, while offering an insight into the lives and mentalities of villagers and townspeople of early modern England.en_AU
dc.subjectCrimeen_AU
dc.subjectLegalen_AU
dc.subjectPetitionen_AU
dc.subjectMedicineen_AU
dc.subjectapothecaryen_AU
dc.subjectGenderen_AU
dc.subjectreligionen_AU
dc.subjectcourten_AU
dc.subjectPuritanismen_AU
dc.subjectdefamationen_AU
dc.titleLaw and the Crime of Practicing Popular Medicine in Early Modern Societyen_AU
dc.typeArticleen_AU
dc.subject.asrcFoR::160899 - Sociology not elsewhere classifieden_AU
dc.subject.asrcFoR::160299 - Criminology not elsewhere classifieden_AU
dc.subject.asrcFoR::210305 - British Historyen_AU
dc.subject.asrcFoR::169901 - Gender Specific Studiesen_AU
dc.subject.asrcFoR::220205 - History and Philosophy of Medicineen_AU
dc.subject.asrcFoR::110499 - Complementary and Alternative Medicine not elsewhere classifieden_AU
dc.type.pubtypePre-printen_AU


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