Rye Spirits: Sample Chapters

Sample Chapters from Rye Spirits

 

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Contents

Preface

Part 1: The Story

Prologue

1.  Approaching Rye

2. Susan’s Story

3. The Interrogators

4. Anne Taylor

5. Faith and Faction

6. Attempts at Reconciliation

7. Healers

8. Entertaining Fairies

9. Many Eyes Fixed upon this Case

10. Economic Decline

11. Thomas Hamon and the Crisis of the 1590s

12. The Accusers

Epilogue

13. The Wider Context

Part 2: Of mirth and godliness

Appendix: Timeline

Notes

Bibliography

Index