Gregory, Annabel (Author)
Hedge
Physical Details: xv + 304 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Gregory's micro-hisory unfolds in Rye, one of the Cinque Ports. This small, isolated English seaport nonetheless possessed a rare privilege since the Norman era---full rights of criminal justice over all cases except high treason. Moreover, it had no agricultural hinterland but contained a separate church for Huguenot exiles from Dieppe, the French terminal of Rye's Channel ferry (181--183). As Gregory suggests, Rye's peculiarities help to explain why its only known witchcraft episode differs from most British cases; for example, its local testimony includes far more information about fairies than do other such trials held south of Scotland. Gregory's account thus contains inter alia an excursus on Gillyflowers (127, with illustration), as well as one on the peculiar Cinque Ports privilege of withernam (145). [from Journal of Interdisciplinary History review]
...MoreReview Levack, Brian P. (2014) Review of "Rye Spirits: Faith, Faction and Fairies in a Seventeenth-Century English Town". Journal of British Studies (p. 510).
Review Monter, William (2014) Review of "Rye Spirits: Faith, Faction and Fairies in a Seventeenth-Century English Town". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (p. 384).
Review Gaskill, Malcolm (2014) Review of "Rye Spirits: Faith, Faction and Fairies in a Seventeenth-Century English Town". Continuity and Change (p. 145).
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