Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James VI’s Demonology and the North Berwick Witches

King James' treatise was written at a period of dramatic change in Scottish witchcraft and after a period of intense prosecution in Scotland. It was republished in England in the year of James' accession to the English throne.

Lawrence Normand is principal lecturer in English at Middlesex University.
Until his death in 1999, Gareth Roberts was senior lecturer in the School of English, University of Exeter, where he was Course Director of the MA in The History and Literature of Witchcraft.