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Perks of Perkins: Understanding Where Magic and Religion Meet for an Early Modern English Theologian Kyle Sanders University of South Carolina University of South Carolina Scholar Commons Theses and Dissertations 2018 Perks Of Perkins: Understanding Where Magic And Religion Meet For An Early Modern English Theologian Kyle Sanders University of South Carolina Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Sanders, K.(2018). Perks Of Perkins: Understanding Where Magic And Religion Meet For An Early Modern English Theologian. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/4681 This Open Access Thesis is brought to you by Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PERKS OF PERKINS : UNDERSTANDING WHERE MAGIC AND RELIGION MEET FOR AN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH THEOLOGIAN by Kyle Sanders Bachelor of Arts Baylor University, 2016 Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts in History College of Arts and Sciences University of South Carolina 2018 Accepted by: Kathryn Edwards, Director of Thesis Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Reader Cheryl L. Addy, Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School © Copyright by Kyle Sanders, 2018 All Rights Reserved. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wanted to acknowledge all of the people who have helped me get this thing across the finish line. I have to start with my family, who helped me make the decision to go after my Master’s Degree at University of South Carolina. I also want to thank my thesis committee. Dr. Edwards has been an amazing guide as my Thesis Director and advisor. I have learned a great deal from her about Early Modern Europe and how to approach history. Dr. Melvin-Koushki has also been a great reader and teacher. I also need to thank my amazing friends, like Emmaline Smith, whose great feedback and encouragement kept me motivated. Finally, I want to thank Drew, who spent way too much time as my second pair of eyes and emotional support. iii ABSTRACT This thesis argues that A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft by William Perkins, a prestigious Puritan theologian in Elizabethan England, highlights several themes in his witchcraft discourse which reflect his larger theology and more general trends in English theology: a world with an active Devil, predestination, providence, Biblicism, and anti-Catholicism. These central themes shape his understandings of where witchcraft fits within a world where God dominates everything. Witchcraft is an attempt to steal the dominion from God, even though the Devil only tricks witches into thinking they have power. He also tricks them into thinking he has power, since God grants him his ability over humanity. Perkins’ described witchcraft practices mirror this understanding and are circumvented by godly opportunities for Christians to avoid witchcraft. In thus painting witchcraft, Perkins demonstrates a culture he sees as far too permissive of magic in academic settings, popular culture, and Catholicism. The different theological elements Perkins presents in his Discourse coalesce to portray a man representing a fermenting Puritan culture which emphasizes the impurity of a larger culture and works to correct the moral failings of the larger world, spawning from a black and white understanding of good and evil. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................ iii Abstract .............................................................................................................................. iv Chapter 1: Introduction ........................................................................................................1 Chapter 2: The Devil in a Predestined Cosmos ...................................................................5 Chapter 3: Witchcraft and Sin ............................................................................................17 Chapter 4: Divination and Prophecy ..................................................................................24 Chapter 5: Charms and Anti-Catholicism ..........................................................................34 Chapter 6: Perkins and the Witch Trials ............................................................................46 Chapter 7: Conclusion........................................................................................................55 Bibliography ......................................................................................................................57 v CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Originally published by Thomas Pickering in 1608, four years after the death of its author William Perkins, A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft; So Farre Forth as it is reuealed in the Scriptures, and manifest by true experience. Framed and Delivered by M. William Perkins is probably not the first document that comes to one’s head when talking about witchcraft treatises. 1 It is most often overshadowed by bigger names, such as the James I’s Daemonologie. Even in terms of English witchcraft it is often lumped in with general discussions of theology Elizabethan England. 256 pages long, it deals mostly with analyzing the dangers of witches to society, placing witches within a larger religious cosmology, and advising Christians on how to deal with witches. The argument of this thesis is not necessarily that Perkins’ discourse is atypical or incredibly influential in its own right. Though this document circulated widely in England and the continent of Europe, there is very little direct evidence that it increased accusations or shaped the way witchcraft trials were run. 2 The center of this thesis actually hinges on placing this Discourse as a central means of understanding Perkins’ personal theology and larger societal trends. 1 W. B. Patterson, William Perkins and the Making of a Protestant England (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 153. 2 Kathryn A. Edwards, “Witchcraft in Tudor England and Scotland,” in A Companion to Tudor Literature , ed. Kent Cartwright (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 40. 1 William Perkins was born in 1558 as lower gentry and was educated at Cambridge where he received as far as an MA. He then worked as a lecturer at St. Andrew’s Church and was a Fellow at Cambridge. He was tutored by Lawrence Chaderton and remained a central theological figure in the moderate Puritan movements of the late 1500s. He is even credited for teaching figures such as William Ames and Robert Cotton. 3 Perkins had a practical Puritan theology, focusing on how Reformation religious values, such as predestination, worked practically for the believers. 4 He sees the importance of Perkins in the proliferation of his work. He notes that Perkins published forty-eight books, twenty-one during his life. Many of these books made their way over to the New World, and many more were translated into the vernacular languages of many different countries. 5 Perkins was a key figure in the early development of Puritan belief through his practical theology and influence as a teacher and writer. Through the Discourse , Perkins contributes to a growing genre of pamphlets and treatises in England regarding witchcraft. Pamphlets and treatises on the witch trials proved a popular and profitable subject for printers and writers at the time, providing an often-salacious subject for readers. Starting in 1566, most witch trials were passed to the public as accounts of the events of the trials with varying levels of accuracy. These pamphlets encouraged the production of lengthier treatises, such as that of Perkins. The first major treatise in a long line of English treatises by theologians in communication with English and European witchcraft beliefs was Henry Holland’s Treatise against 3 William Perkins et al., A Commentary on Galatians (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1989), viii–ix. 4 Patterson, William Perkins and the Making of a Protestant England , 216–17. 5 Patterson, William Perkins and the Making of a Protestant England , 190–91. 2 witchcraft from 1590. 6 Others soon followed: James Mason’s The Anatomie of Sorcerie (1612), Thomas Cooper’s Mystery of Witchcraft (1617), John Cotta’s The Trial of Witch- craft (1616) , and Richard Bernard’s Guide to Grande Jury Men (1627). 7 In compiling these larger works, authors relied on trial records, smaller pamphlets, and other treatises; in each case their information was distanced from the witch herself. Whether it is reading the witchcraft pamphlets or treatises, one cannot ignore that these documents are created documents. Marion Gibson breaks down this belief best in his Reading Witchcraft: Stories of early English witches . The information included, the subjects focused on, and way the author talks about witchcraft are all shaped by what the author and what they want to achieve, where he attempts to read past the flaws in these documents to understand the information beneath. 8 Reading Perkins’ treatise as a created document will help illustrate its importance to historical understandings. This thesis will argue that the importance of Perkins’ treatise is not in an abundance of unique contributions, but in how many different elements of theology and social criticism come together in this work. Perkins sees his world as battleground between the God and Satan, where Satan’s abilities are granted by an omnipotent God to punish sinners. These beliefs display an emerging understanding of predestination and providence
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