Suchergebnisse

1. 'From Aegypt have I come' -- 2. 'Gypsies : thieves and tramps?' -- 3. 'Chargeable unto the country' -- 4. 'O'er the moors to Kirk Yetholm' -- 5. The narrative of gypsyhood -- 6. 'By lines they read in face and hand' -- 7. 'These rowsey, ragged rabblement of rakehelles' : rogue literature -- 8. 'The stain of my offence'.

In early modern England, the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic - the attempted communication with angels and demons - both reinforced and subverted existing concepts of gender. The majority of male magicians acted from a position of control and command commensurate with their social position in a patriarchal society; other men, however, used the notion of magic to subvert gender ideals while still aiming to attain hegemony. Whilst women who claimed to perform magic were usually more submissive in their attempted dealings with the spirit world, some female practitioners employed magic to u