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SUMMARY:The Jury\, the Witch\, and the Shadow of Doubt: Witchcraft on Tria
 l in Early Modern England - Professor Krista Kesselring\, Professor of His
 tory at Dalhousie University\, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and
  the Baxandall Visiting Fellow of Robinson College\, Cambridge
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CONTACT:The Rt Hon Sir Simon Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Juries saved a high proportion of people accused of crimes rel
 ated to witchcraft even at the height of the so-called 'witch hunting’ e
 ra in England’s history. Trial juries sent hundreds of women (and some m
 en) to the gallows\, true\, but this talk focuses on the restraint and dou
 bt shown not by learned\, elite scholars or judges but by community member
 s who acted as witnesses or jurors and helped free many hundreds more. Exa
 mining an unusually well documented set of accusations against two women i
 n the 1580s – accusations that travelled from rural Buckinghamshire to Q
 ueen Elizabeth’s privy council at Westminster – this talk explores the
  trial process\, the role of the jury\, and the work done by stories of 
 ‘common and vulgar’ superstition in our understanding of the history o
 f witchcraft.  
LOCATION:The Umney Theatre\, Robinson College\, Cambridge
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