Cotton Mather (1) (1663–1728)
Autor/a de The Wonders of the Invisible World: The Trials of Witches
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Obres de Cotton Mather
Les obres s'han combinat en Cotton Mather.
God's Call to Young People: A Call to the Rising Generation to Know and Serve God While They Are Still Young (Family… (2001) 27 exemplars
Magnalia Christi Americana; Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New England (Milestones of Thought in the History of… (1971) 12 exemplars
Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the ecclesiastical history of New-England from its first planting in the year 1620.… (1853) 6 exemplars
The Everlasting Gospel of Justification 5 exemplars
Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum : a faithful account of the discipline professed and practised in the churches… (1972) 5 exemplars
Essays to Do Good: Addressed to All Christians, Whether in Public or Private Capacities (Classic Reprint) (2012) 3 exemplars
Biblia Americana: America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 5:… (2016) 3 exemplars
Biblia Americana: America's First Bible Commentary. a Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments:… (2018) 3 exemplars
Biblia Americana: America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 1:… (2010) 3 exemplars
The Witchcraft Delusion in New England (Vol. 1-3): Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Complete Edition) (2020) 3 exemplars
COTTON MATHER: Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), Volume 1 (of 2) (The Library of Early American Literature) (2020) 3 exemplars
Directions for a Candidate of the Ministry (The American Puritans Series) (Volume 2) (2021) 2 exemplars
Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and death of the ever-memorable Dr. Increase Mather 2 exemplars
A Poem and an Elegy 2 exemplars
Decennium luctuosum: an history of remarkable occurrences in the long war which New England hath had with the Indian… (1699) 2 exemplars
Essays to Do Good Addressed to All Christians Whether in Public or Private Capacities (2003) 2 exemplars
Magnalia Christi Americana, Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England: From Its First Planting, in the Year 620,… (2019) 1 exemplars
The Great Works of Christ in America Vol 2 1 exemplars
Biblia Americana: America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 4:… (2013) 1 exemplars
The Negro Christianized An essay to excite and assist the good work, the instruction of Negro-servants in Christianity.… (1706) 1 exemplars
Hannah Swanton, the Casco Captive, or the Catholic Religion in Canada and Its Influence on the Indians in Maine… (2012) 1 exemplars
The Witchcraft Delusion in New England (The Esoteric Library) (The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise,… (2016) 1 exemplars
Strange Phenomena of New England, in the Seventeenth Century: Including the "Salem Witchcraft," "1692" (Classic… (2017) 1 exemplars
The Great Works of Christ in America Vol 1 1 exemplars
Magnalia Christi Americana, Vol. 2 of 2: Or the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, From Its First Planting in the… (2017) 1 exemplars
The Witchcraft Delusion in New England, Vol. 2 of 3: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Classic Reprint) (2015) 1 exemplars
What Shall I Do to Be Saved? 1 exemplars
The right way to shake off a viper. An essay, on a case, too commonly calling for consideration 1 exemplars
India christiana : A discourse, delivered unto the commissioners, for the propagation of the gospel ... 1 exemplars
The Boston ephemeris. An almanack for the (Dyonisian) year of the Christian aera. M DC. LXXX III. ... 1 exemplars
Token for Children 1 exemplars
Magnalia christi americana 1 exemplars
A course of sermons on early piety by the eight ministers who carry on the thursday lecture in Boston 1 exemplars
manuductio ad ministerium 1 exemplars
Obres associades
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The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Col·laborador — 81 exemplars
White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives (1999) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 41 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Mather, Cotton
- Data de naixement
- 1663-02-12
- Data de defunció
- 1728-02-13
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Copp's Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Boston, Masachusetts Bay Colony
- Lloc de defunció
- Boston, Masachusetts Bay Colony
- Llocs de residència
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Educació
- Boston Latin School
Harvard College (AB|1678)
Harvard College (AM|1681) - Professions
- minister
theologian
scientist
philosopher - Relacions
- Mather, Increase (father)
Cotton, John (grandfather)
Mather, Richard (grandfather) - Premis i honors
- Boston Latin School Hall of Fame
Royal Society (1726)
Honorary doctorate, University of Glasgow (1710)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 120
- També de
- 7
- Membres
- 849
- Popularitat
- #30,131
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 3
- ISBN
- 116
- Preferit
- 3
Thus, I picked up a reprint of Cotton Mather’s tract, Wonders of the Invisible World Being An Account of the Trials of Several Witches Lately Executed in New England. It was a very difficult read, as the Kessinger Press edition I have is a direct copy of a 1692 book published in London. The reproduction is quite poor, with entire paragraphs unreadable because the letters are “washed out”; there’s also the ubiquitous medial “s”, that looks like an “f” (especially disconcerting when Mather discusses witches supposedly suckling their familiars).
Further, this isn’t an organized discussion of the trials – rather it’s a collection of various things Mather threw together on the general theme of witchcraft and the Devil. Thus there are some observations on witch hunting technique (“heavier than a duck” is not mentioned), some sermons Mather gave on the Devil, accounts of individual trials (there were 19 witches involved; Mather only discusses five – Bridget Bishop, Susanna Martin, Elizabeth How, Martha Carrier, and “G.B.”) “G.B.” is George Burroughs, whose fall from grace (he was a former Salem minister) so incensed Mather that he refused to give his full name. Mather seems quite sure that these five were guilty as charged. He doesn’t say much about the others (although he does describe Giles Corey, who was pressed to death refusing to plead, as a “poor man”, with the implication that he was unfortunate rather than financially destitute). The section that seems to confirm the partial rehabilitation of Mather in Salem Possessed is at the beginning, and is Mather’s commentary on “spectral evidence”.
“Spectral Evidence” was apparently considered definitive proof of witchcraft. A “specter” was the appearance of a living person (as opposed to a dead person, who would be a ghost) in a place where the person couldn’t physically be. All the specters cited are engaged in tormenting or at least annoying somebody; the accounts Mather gives makes it pretty clear that most of the specters are what would now be called hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations; the witch appears in the victim’s bedchamber and sits on his chest, “greatly oppressing” him. The victim is paralyzed, but is eventually able to stir or cry out, whereupon the specter disappears. Mather’s caution is that maybe, just maybe, God might permit the Devil to make a specter of an innocent person, since it would certainly delight the Devil to have an innocent accused and executed. He doesn’t go on from there, but it could be the thin edge of the wedge; if the Devil can falsify spectral evidence, then presumably he could also falsify mad cows, mysteriously dead chickens, poorly behaved children, sour beer, miscellaneous aches and pains, and all the other evils inflicted by witches. Rather shallow evidence for changing Mather’s image from inquisitor to civil right activist; but perhaps.
The book is quaint enough, and inspires me to read a little more about the Mathers.… (més)