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Cornell University Library Witchcraft Collection
http://historical.library.cornell.edu
/witchcraft/index.html
A selection of the more than 3,000 titles in the library documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft. The books are available both as facsimiles and as transcriptions.
John Dee and the Secret Societies
www.levity.com/alchemy/h_dee.html
Academic article by Ron Heisler that attempts to discover the political
and religious significance of certain episodes in Dee's life and the clues
they give to the secret society culture of the late Elizabethans.
Books
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century England by Keith Thomas (Penguin, 1991) £14.99
Examines the history of witchcraft and popular ideas about magic in the
context of the hazardous society of the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The ritual year 1400-1700
by Ronald Hutton (Oxford Paperbacks, new ed 2001) £9.99
The first comprehensive account of the religious and secular rituals of
late medieval and early modern England.
The Queen's Conjurer: The science and magic of Dr Dee by Benjamin
Woolley (HarperCollins, 2001) £15.99
The Elizabethan scholar, scientist and political adviser who became obsessed
with magic and the occult, which ultimately led to his virtual exile.
Eros and Magic in the Renaissance by Ioan P Couliano (University
of Chicago Press, 1987) £11.50
Argues that magic is the precursor of the modern psychological and sociological
sciences, and the magician the ancestor of the psychoanalyst.
The Elizabethan Renaissance: The life of the society by A L Rowse
(Penguin, 2000) £4.99
Filled with facts and trivia, the book's central section on astrology,
witchcraft, sorcery and alchemy is revealing of the Elizabethan age.
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