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Aug 3, 2019 · Daemonologie holds the dubious honour of being the only book in history written by a monarch about witchcraft. Yes, step on up, King James VI of Scotland and I of England! In this post, we’re going to explore what Daemonologie and why it was written. We’ll also look at its impact and what it was for.
Mar 28, 2007 · This essay seeks to develop two aspects of contemporary thought by means of which Caliban can be seen not more clearly but in even greater complexity, and it proposes King James’s Daemonologie as a possible source for these ideas.
- Jacqueline E. M. Latham
- 1975
Clearly, the bible is one of the main sources for James. In Demonology it is the prime authority and final court of appeal in an argument. There is an absence of citation of classical instances which are used in many demonologies to supplement the rather meagre number of biblical instances of magic.
King James wrote a dissertation titled Daemonologie that was first sold in 1597, several years prior to the first publication of the King James Authorized Version of the Bible.
The first transformation took the witches out of their local context of English popular culture, in which the Devil played a small part, and re-presented them in the discourse of continental demonology as servants of Satan. James's treatise provided a perfect but not unique model.
With its full title of Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mighty Prince, James &c., Daemonologie, was a book that asserted King James’ belief in magic and witchcraft and acted as a treatise for the existence of both.
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Jan 1, 2000 · This book provides an introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best-known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history — the North Berwick witch hunt — in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge, and demonologist. It provides hitherto unpublished and ...
