Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0415171091, Paperback)

In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, stood trial and were hanged in Lowestoft. A Trial of Witches is an in-depth study of this trial and an analysis of the court procedures and the larger social, cultural and political concerns of the period. The authors consider the participants in the case, their institutional importance and their part in the fate of the women.

Thirty years later, the Lowestoft trial was cited at the Salem trials. Through detailed research of primary sources, the authors explore the important implications of this case for the understanding of hysteria, group mentality, social forces and the witchcraft phenomenon as a whole.