Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland
- Submitting institution
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University of Ulster
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 76465049
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9780230302723
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI)
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 80,000 word monograph’s complexity derived from its periodization (the later medieval period to the nineteenth century) and its focus on the belief system and trials of popular magic and witchcraft. Since materials were destroyed in Dublin in 1922, a painstaking record substitution was required, drawing on a wide variety of sources spread throughout Ireland, Britain and the USA. These included: maps; objects of magical material culture; folklore; newspapers; periodicals; medieval charms; Brehon law texts; secular and church courts records; sermons; and personal narratives. A comparative pan-European approach required a familiarity with a wide array of inter-disciplinary, secondary sources.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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